Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dressed in a conservative style tonight: the usual iridescent lavender suit has given way to a blue blazer and grey slacks. But the crowd knows him as "God's Man of Faith and Power," and they also know that something powerful is coming. "We need six strong men to help bring out this stretcher," he shouts. Half a dozen eager volunteers spring into the wings to bring out an ambulance stretcher carrying a groaning black woman. "This woman was brought into the hospital this morning with third-degree burns over her body," reads an attending nurse. "She was home...
...Road. Most of the time, though, Allen, his assistant ministers, and a handful of trusted aides are on the road, moving from meeting to meeting in a caravan of five huge moving vans brightly labeled "A. A. Allen Revivals." Advance men have prepared the way for them, enlisting local ministers, mostly from Pentecostal churches, to share the stage with Allen, rejoice in the cures, and give a little pitch for their own services. Allen's specialty, along with the cures, is the $100 pledge, and the hard sell is usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures...
...country knows all too well what he is doing. Take Atlanta, for example. Last week 3,600 Roller Derby fans jampacked Municipal Auditorium to watch the touring San Francisco Bay Bombers battle the New England Braves. The fundamentals of the game were easy enough to grasp: with men and women alternating, two teams of five skaters each circle a banked oval track in a tight cluster. Then one or two skaters from each team break from the pack and attempt to score points by "jamming" or lapping opponents, who fight them off with elbow jabs, strangleholds and something called...
...that would offend many people." Tommy pointed out that "on the other hand, if a black man were to kiss a white girl, that, too, would offend many people. So we would like to take the only logical step we could take where nobody would be offended." The two men then turned to ward each other with a look of simultaneous discovery and fondness -and kissed, smack on the lips. The ABC Department of Broadcast Standards and Practices (the censors) deleted the actual contact of the lips, but the audience knew exactly what was going to happen after the rest...
...These men, mostly young and self-made, have little regard for established rules or customs. They are reshaping business in a manner that deeply affects not only owners and managers but millions of stockholders and employees as well. In time, their expanding takeovers of hundreds of companies could transform the entire structure of the U.S. economy. Already, they have stirred intense debate among businessmen and Government officials alike: Are their actions a threat or a boon to U.S. business...