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...March 1951, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Luce directed that from then on at least one color page should appear in every issue of TIME. Four-color photographs had made their debut in the magazine years before Luce's decree (in a 1934 survey of U.S. Depression-era painting, including Grant Wood's classic, American Gothic). But color was expensive, not always accurate and + required such a long time from photo to printed page that it was used only to illustrate feature stories...
...George Wallace did in 1968. Indeed, Jackson has tried to add other colors to his Rainbow Coalition. But the electorate is polarized nevertheless, with blacks voting overwhelmingly for Jackson and whites voting overwhelmingly for white candidates. "A certain latent racism has come out," says Gary Willis, Henry Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University. "People say, 'Whenever I hear somebody stir up crowds, I think of Hitler.' That kind of comment shows a blindness to black style, and it's most often said by people who've never heard a black church...
...member of the Postal Service board of governors on July 31, 1981; Thomas Barrack, who spent $70,000 of his own money to help Meese find a buyer for his California house in the summer of 1982 and became Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December 1982; Gordon Luce, chairman of Great American Federal Savings Bank in San Diego, and Edwin Gray, a former senior vice president of the bank, which permitted Meese to fall 15 months behind on mortgage loans of more than $400,000. Luce became alternate U.S. delegate to the United Nations in September 1982; Gray...
...Gordon Luce, chairman of Great American Federal Savings Bank in San Diego, who was named an alternate U.S. delegate to the United Nations after his bank granted Meese mortgage loans of more than $400,000 and let him fall 15 months behind in payments without threatening foreclosure...
...were set free in staggered waves, and they walked home. There have been further shows of security force: cars and cabs stopped, credentials and satchels checked, reporters occasionally patted down politely. None of it has seemed meanspirited. Police are oddly reasonable, and after a time, scarcely noticeable. Skier Marie-Luce Waldmeier had a good word for them: "Discreet...