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Word: lofton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...younger than the white citizenry and does not turn out as heavily to vote. The two leading Negro mayoral possibilities are both moderates: Kenneth Gibson, a structural engineer in the city's buildings department, who ran for mayor in 1966 and finished third, and hard-driving Oliver Lofton, head of the city's Neighborhood Legal Services office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: PROBLEMS OF A PROTOTYPE | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...past five years, paying a daily fee of $16.50 to use a "rent-a-cab." From that investment he can expect $100 a week-in a good week-as personal profit. He is unmarried ("I'm all alone in this jungle," Smith told his lawyer, Oliver Lofton, a former aide to Under Secretary of State Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach). He rents a one-room apartment in Newark's "Ironbound" district (so named for its wrap-around railroad lines), has a collection of 25 "cool" jazz records, and is saving for a plate to replace his missing front teeth (lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Sparks & Tinder | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Obsession with sex can range from titillation to the repellent. On Kansas City's Counsellor's Corner, the Rev. R. Lofton Hudson found himself counseling a woman who complained that she was being "pressured" into a neighborhood wife-swapping group. Bob Raiford, on Washington's WTOP, waded unblinking into a discussion of aerosol contraceptives. And when New Orleans' WSMB's Larry Regan asked one deviate caller if he had considered going to a psychiatrist, he got the reply, "Go to a psychiatrist, hell. I go with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Hot Hot-Line | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...Crimson's almost-perennial strength at the bottom of the ladder that stopped the Cadets. Sophomore star Dinny Adams walloped Rick Lofton, 15-7, 15-12, 18-14 in the number eight match, and veteran John Francis turned back Steve Lomback in the ninth spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Scares Racketmen But Squad Slips By, 5-4 | 12/7/1963 | See Source »

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