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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white. A new dialogue. What do Negroes want? According to a survey for the Kerner Commission, most Negroes reject the blandishments of black separatists. A FORTUNE survey determined last year, in fact, that about three-quarters thought conditions were better than they had been in the early and mid '60s. Even more had hope for the future. They want the same things whites want: decent housing, decent jobs, decent education and the respect that is due any human being. In his basic hopes and fears, the black American is no different at all from the white American. Thus...
...result, countless young reporters, would-be lady novelists, daydreaming clerks and other aspiring writers around the country yearned to "make the Post." In the mid-'20s, unsolicited manuscripts poured in at the rate of 2,000 a week, and had to be carted into "readers' " offices in big wicker baskets. Most could be dismissed with a scan of the first few pages, but editors had to watch for glued and upside-down pages farther on -writers' tricks to detect unread pieces...
...York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average sank for the fourth straight week. A 26-point loss reduced the average to 925, wiping out all its gains since mid-September. From its early December peak, the Dow has slipped 60 points, or 6%. Brokers generally see little on the economic horizon to provide much cheer...
...mid-1800s, when the first "sod-busters" arrived in the West with their constricting fences and farming habits, epithets like "squawmen" and "Indian lover" became part of the American language, and a special form of racism became widespread. Yet to the trappers, the Indian woman made the best wife. She skinned and fleshed his beaver and buffalo hides, sewed and ornamented his clothing, fashioned moccasins and snowshoes for him, and prepared him such delicacies as boiled buffalo hump, boiled unborn calf, and dried moose nose. If she had any drawback, it was galloping garrulity: contrary to stereotype, Indian women were...
...Which team ended Oklahoma's 50-plus winning streak in the mid- 1950's? By what score...