Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there in the official university housing bureau." Looking back, it seems almost inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist Study Club at Illinois, Shanker devoted his extracurricular time to increasing attendance at club functions from an average of 15 to 500; he helped Socialist Norman Thomas draw a bigger crowd than either Tom Dewey or Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential campaign. He picketed Urbana's segregated movie houses and restaurants. A pacifist, he registered for a time as a conscientious objector...
...Carlos, his bearded teammate from San Jose State College, had finished third. Together, they turned up for the awards ceremony shoeless, wearing knee-length black stockings and a black glove on one hand (the right for Tommie, the left for John). Along with Australia's Peter Norman, the second-place finisher, they mounted the victory pedestal to receive their medals. Then, as the U.S. flag was raised and the band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, the two black athletes bowed their heads and raised their gloved hands in a clenched-fist salute. A wave of boos rippled through...
...hell of a position for people who consider themselves problem solvers, pacesetters and molders of public opinion." It is also a hell of a position for businessmen. Last year, Negroes spent $30 billion on consumer items, or 6% of the national total, and as Louise Hexter, account executive for Norman, Craig & Kummel, says, "It is utterly absurd to exclude them from your advertising." Nonetheless, admen are proceeding with extreme caution because, says Mrs. Hexter, "we're scared to death. We're scared of anything that will cause adverse publicity...
Though the party was held to introduce fashion favorite Norman Norell's venture into the heady world of perfumery, the star of the after-hours bash at Bonwit Teller's department store in Manhattan was Lauren Bacall, who held court with her left leg propped on a dainty gilt chair. She had torn a cartilage at another party honoring still another designing guru, Yves Saint Laurent. "I thought I was Margot Fonteyn on the dance floor and promptly slipped," said Lauren. "And now as I go spreading joy through New York, I'm paying for it every...
...most successful efforts is Los Angeles' Green Power Foundation, largely bankrolled by Negro businessmen. Led by Engineer Norman Hodges, 32, the foundation started by making souvenir baseball bats, called "Watts Wallopers," and has since spread out. It now runs a trucking company, plans to start manufacturing plastics products and printed electronics circuits...