Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some who would like to preserve "separate-but-equal" status in at least one area. For years many Dixie newspapers have printed separate Negro and white editions, splitting press runs to drop in pages of news for each community. "Negroes like it because they get more attention," claims Editor Joe Parham of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News, where the practice is still in effect (as in Augusta). "We print their deaths and funeral notices, a hospital report, club meetings, birthdays, lodge notices, social and personal news...
Mantle knew the measure of his own loss. After doctors poured a plaster cast around his broken foot, he hobbled up to Trainer Joe Soares. Asked Mickey: "Isn't there some way they can strap this thing up so I can play...
Occasionally splitting up to cover more ground, the Economist team ranged from Leningrad and the Georgian capital of Tiflis (where they found just two statues of Favorite Son Joe Stalin) to Armenia. Some of the events on their itinerary were less than enlightening. In a Tashkent opera house, the six sat yawning through a two-hour program of eulogies for an obscure poet, but managed to salvage a guffaw when a Canadian Communist named Tim Buck stood up to describe how the local hero-who wrote in Uzbek -had given Buck's fellow Canadians "great inspiration fighting imperialists...
...call Saigon "the ville," express fervent approval of everything from a girl to a chopper with the word"outstandin'." Top-ranking visitors often hitch rides on their flights to get in a few personal licks at the Viet Cong. Brigadier General Joseph Stilwell Jr., son of "Vinegar Joe," frequently rides shotgun in Slavich's own chopper. Once, with Stilwell aboard, Slavich had to make an emergency landing in a Red-infested area. "I was scared to death," said Slavich. "I'm glad the Viet Cong didn't come along, because I know damn well that General...
...years. This year capital spending will climb to a record $40 billion. The most prodigious spender of all. American Telephone & Telegraph, has increased its annual budget by $1 billion since 1959, this year will raise it to $3.1 billion -more than the gross national product of many nations. Joe Block's Inland Steel has increased its capital budgets from $42 million to $110 million...