Word: mason
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin crackdown. Dozens of East Germans went on trial for "insulting the state." Many panic-stricken East Germans who bought up groceries and clothing in fear of war were called on the carpet for hoarding. There was still a trickle of refugees sneaking out to the West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate was the man who jumped into a Spree River inlet near the old Reichstag and tried to swim the 100 yards to safety...
Incoming President Vaughan Carrington Mason, 46, of Manhattan, criticized the King-Anderson bill, too. But, separating himself a little from all the harmony, he took after one of the A.M.A.'s favorite laws, the Kerr-Mills Act, which routes federal money to the states to set up medical-care plans for the near-indigent aged. So long as "states that do not even believe in the dignity of some of their citizens . . . deprive Negro citizens of their rights, what faith can I have that they will treat the sick, needy aged Negroes any better...
Furthermore, by unanimous voice vote, the Negro delegates backed pending bills -opposed by the A.M.A.-to bring physicians themselves under the general benefits of social security. And they applauded Dr. Mason's attack on the practice in segregationist states of keeping Negro physicians from full membership in county societies and keeping them out of hospitals. A little bitterly, Dr. Mason urged the A.M.A. to discipline local societies that discriminate against the Negro physician. On this topic, perhaps dearest to the heart of Negro doctors, A.M.A.'s President Larson had nothing...
...Rockefeller ticket in the next campaign if Richard Nixon does not run. But Goldwater is quite aware of the handicaps he would have to overcome. As a champion of states' rights, Goldwater has paid court to white Southern Democrats and has helped make Republicans respectable south of the Mason-Dixon line-but at the real risk of earning the enmity of U.S. Negroes. As the admitted hero of U.S. conservatives, Goldwater has been unfairly charged with the sins of the right wing's political cranks, whom he has tried to steer toward moderation and toward a place...
...that very nicely, as the blonde Charleston hoofer in the least roarious of TV's lost hours. The Roaring 20s. It is Dorothy's oooohing and shimmying that have kept the series afloat: each Saturday night, viewers who might better be occupied playing Guggenheim or watching Perry Mason turn faithfully to ABC. They endure anywhere from five minutes to an hour of stupefying drama about racketeers and handsome reporters that is worth watching only because each reporter is able to say. "This time you've gone too far, Rocco," without removing the faint smile from his lips...