Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southern newspapers routinely relegated announcements of black births, deaths and marriages to special Jim Crow pages. In 1956, the Wilmington, N.C., Star went to press with a frontpage photo of four Marines who were to testify in the court-martial of a drill instructor charged with brutality. When an editor noticed that one of the witnesses was black, he ordered an employee to chisel the Negro's image out of the press plate. The paper appeared with a ragged white space where the black face had been...
...practical terms, that meant simply, desegregate, and quickly. Then, in 1972, the Court told the School Committee in Denver that even though it had never officially enacted any Jim Crow laws, blacks, whites and hispanics had drifted unacceptably to separate school districts anyway, and that, as they say in the courts, mandated redress. Garrity documented a similar situation in Boston, where, to boot, an in-state Racial Imbalance Act had ordered the city to clean up its act as far back as 1965. The School Committee had disobeyed that act. Garrity, in June 1973, said, briefly, obey...
...most prominent is quarterback Jim Kubacki, whose 1975 rise from second-string junior varsity signal-caller to varsity and nationally acclaimed (4th in the nation in total offense) honcho is by now well known to anyone who watches the Prudential College Scoreboard...
When Kubacki sends the pigskin airborne, it will more than likely be caught by either split end Jim Curry or tight end Bob McDermott. Curry is the best athelete on the team; he led the team in receiving last year, he can kick off, punt, and occasionally boot a field goal...
...Offensively, we're more than adequate in the skilled positions," Restic said last week, "but we won't be able to capitalize unless we find some new people across the front to block it up. Jim Kubacki won't get the job done by himself," and herein lies the preseason achilles tendon of the 1976 Crimson gridders...