Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal intervention was often enough to make local registrars see the light. In Mississippi's Lauderdale County, where a calculated slowdown limited Negro registration to under 80 a day, a pair of Justice Department agents came by for a look in response to N.A.A.C.P. complaints. As if by magic, Lauderdale's registrars enrolled 300 Negroes in that one day, and have been accepting applicants at the higher rate ever since. "The very clear and very heartening lesson," in Lyndon Johnson's words, was that Southern compliance with the law was becoming "a fact of life...
...mannered politesse of the Inns of Court, prefacing each objection with a gracious bow to their "learned friend" across the way. The contrasts, vividly symbolic of Africa in the 1960s, were underlined by the subject of the proceedings: a federal investigation of the Owegbe cult, accused of using juju (magic) to try to overthrow the government of the Mid-Western province, smallest of Nigeria's four regions...
...gone Wilde, and the newest darlings on its social circuit are artists and artisans who ten years ago were talked about but seldom talked to−such as, say, Norman (Mailer), Tennessee (Williams), Sammy (Davis Jr.), Gadge (Elia Kazan), Rudolf (Bing) and Cal (Robert Lowell). At the moment, the magic names are Andy and Edie...
...traditional tension-buster during January and June reading and exam periods, the Bogey festival was introduced to work its same magic at the Summer School about three years ago. But it just didn't seem to catch...
...amphibious craft can cozy right up to an airplane, load up and transport its 15 passengers to a terminal on the other side of the bay so smoothly that they will not know when they are riding over cement or sea. Not that the ship is a veritable magic carpet. The engine makes so much noise that passengers have difficulty carrying on a conversation, and the forced air kicks up so much dust and spray that the visibility through the windows is almost zero. But the engineers are learning fast. Early in the spring, a test Hovercraft capsized while making...