Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total of 4,000,000, the racial ratios shifted a bit. All together 8.2% of the black workers were unemployed, and 4.5% of the white workers-a ratio of 1.8 to 1 instead of 2 to 1. One ironic reason for this improvement in the traditional mix is that blacks have not qualified for many skilled jobs in two of the industries that have been worst hurt in the economic slowdown: aerospace and munitions making. Instead, they have filled what have turned out to be quite recession-proof jobs in Government and service industries. Among all black workers, the percentage...
Although the clubs are alive and not likely to die a sudden death, they are a shadow of their former selves in terms of exclusiveness and social power. There is not exactly a racial mix in the red brick buildings along Mt. Auburn St., and the number of public high school graduates is low, but few people are upset because the clubs ignore them...
Given the mix of personal ambitions and animosities in Saigon, that plot was always less likely to unfold according to plan than to unravel. Last week, in a drama that "needed only Gilbert and Sullivan to set it to music," as one Western diplomat in Saigon cracked unhappily, the show nearly collapsed altogether...
Farmed out to the Burlington, Iowa, Bees, he led the Midwest League in strikeouts with 231 and pitched a no-hitter. Moving on to Birmingham in 1969, he was briefly called up to the A's where as a spot starter he pitched 42 innings and, failing to effectively mix up his pitches, compiled a horrendous earned-run average of 6.21. After leading the American Association in strikeouts, he was brought up again last September...
Among his notable achievements was his coverage of the Arkansas school integration fight in 1957, when the National Guard was ordered in to counteract Governor Orval Faubus' refusal to mix the classrooms. He impressed other newsmen with his solid judgment, laying it on the line about Faubus without being offensive. It was also an assignment that caught the eye of NBC network bosses in New York...