Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Polaroid is interested in the world far beyond its immediate neighborhood. The company's community relations director, Robert Palmer, recently spent ten days helping mediate a prisoner revolt at Massachusetts' Walpole state prison, and has condemned as dehumanizing a proposed ID card system for Massachusetts welfare recipients-even though an ID system pioneered by Polaroid might well have been used. This year the company reached a longtime goal of employing one black in each ten jobs, about the same ratio as blacks in the total population...
ONCE AGAIN the English have given American rock musicians something to think about. No longer content to ape twelve bar blues patterns, several English groups like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and King Crimson have struck out in a new direction to create carefully arranged and precisely executed tonal patterns and musical textures...
...bureaucratic rise was rapid. He joined the Justice Department in 1917, and two years later was head of a new general intelligence division ordered to study subversives during the "Palmer Raids," an anti-Bolshevist dragnet that made McCarthyism a generation later seem a model of tolerance. It was Hoover's first encounter with Communism, which all of his life he regarded as "the greatest menace free civilization has ever known...
...Palmer College of Davenport, Iowa shocked the field with 36-0 and 52-6 victories over Kentucky and Texas in the early going, then overhauled Navy in the second half to win the title...
...Square area will be utilized to its full capacity, largely through the ready cooperation of so many of the stores and banks throughout the area. Like many other stores, the Coop will have special window displays celebrating the celebration, but Howard Davis has also offered to close off Palmer Street for Festival activities. Along with Forbes Plaza and the courtyard of the Architects' Collaborative, this will be the area devoted to outdoor demonstrations of batikking, macrame and pottery, and the space allotted to events like puppet shows, concerts and the escapades of recycle workshops. The entire Festival will be linked...