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There still seems to be a surfeit of criticism, not much of it loving. Explained Eleanor Holmes Norton, 39, New York City Commissioner of Human Rights: "We are drunk on the notion that America progressively gets better. We fail to see that because the world is more complicated, this great Horatio Alger country is finding it difficult to do things that were fairly easy to do before." The result is disappointment and disillusionment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: LEADERSHIP: THE BIGGEST ISSUE | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, New York City human rights commissioner: I grew up in Washington, D.C. Both of my parents had gone to college-the hard way, but they had gone. I was the oldest of three girls. While we were children the second and third were always closer. They ran together and I was separate. I was also the overachieving older girl. Out of the experience of being an older child who quickly had younger siblings I developed another kind of role -to remain different and to remain critical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: GROWING UP DIFFERENT | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

NAACP supporters include heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who pledged $100,000 that he won in his October 9 title bout with Ken Norton...

Author: By David DE Milo, | Title: Group Seeks Funds To Save NAACP | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Tomorrow, the stickwomen must travel to Norton to face perhaps their stiffest test to date. After calmly strangling B.U., Bates, Tufts and now Cornell in the familiar confines of Cambridge, the squad must go on the road and face currently undefeated Wheaton...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Stickwomen Demolish Cornell, Remain Undefeated | 10/12/1976 | See Source »

...divorces, to work his private charities, he has calculated that he needs $83,000 a month. That is why he has gone on boxing with eroded skills. That is why, his mind heavy with death, he shouted nigger into the face of a decent man like Kenny Norton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Doing It Just One More Time | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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