Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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One leading Newark politician may have come closer to the truth than he realized in a half-jocular summary of the meaning of Gibson's election. "Gibson is like the Mona Lisa," he said. "You don't really know what he can do or what he will do...
LeRoi Jones, Playwright
The omission of Carty is the most ludicrous inconsistency in what has come to be known as "Bowie's booboo." To keep people "involved" in the All-Star game, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided last winter to again let the fans make the selections instead of the players. To...
A Brother. Addonizio, a seven-term member of Congress and mayor since 1962, has built a reputation of being liberal on racial matters. In this election he has decorated the city with bland "Peace and Progress" posters, but in his speeches he has turned more and more to race. Relaxed...
THE stock market looked somewhat more cheerful last week than when the Dow-Jones industrial average scraped its late-May low of 631, but Wall Street's brokers were still gloomy about their own private profit squeeze. In the long bear market, the brokerage houses suffered more severely than...