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There are boycotts-Negro leaders prefer to call them "selective patronage movements"-against business firms that discriminate against Negroes in their personnel practices. There are rent strikes against slumlords who refuse to repair Negro tenements. There is the "sit-in" technique and its myriad variations: the "swim-in" to integrate pools, the "wade-in" at beaches, the "pray-in" at churches, the "wait...
...buildings. They would discover that in a single Rachman house different owners were listed for different floors; one company would have a lease to collect rents, another to make repairs, and a third would simply be holding the house "in trust" for one of Rachman's myriad firms...
These are only a few of the myriad new uses; man also employs the gases to fire rockets, sterilize rooms, freeze ice cream and produce soda bubbles. Food processors use liquid hydrogen to stiffen oils into shortening through "hydrogenation." Steelmakers are taking big gulps of pure oxygen in their furnaces to speed melting. In orbital flights, the astronauts burn liquid oxygen as fuel and breathe its evaporations...
...urge to spend is satisfied in myriad and wonderful ways. Because women have plenty of money to go to beauty parlors, sales of Gillette's Toni Home Permanents have fallen off-but Gillette gamely considers the trend good news for the economy as a whole. At Los Angeles' May Co. department stores, a $200,000 collection of primitive art from New Guinea is selling like sunglasses at $3 to $3,000 apiece. There is a boom in book and encyclopedia sales, and the cosmetics industry is lifting its face this year toward $2 billion in sales...
...toward our research in general. Therefore, I am taking this opportunity to bring to the attention of you and the members of the Corporation some of the cogent matters associated with our work. By this means, I hope to prevent the broader issues from being totally submerged beneath the myriad lesser decisions (e.g., my contract) which have to date constituted Harvard's official "position" and expressed concern...