Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, atavism has its champion in Lester ("Pick Handle") Maddox, now lieutenant governor, and progressivism its spokesmen in Atlanta's Jewish may or, Sam Massell, and black vice mayor, Maynard Jackson. Atlanta, the South's showcase, has built skyscrapers and an enlightened image alongside black slums that are well on the way to duplicating the misery and hopelessness of ghettos in Northern cities. Savannah rebuilds its historic colonial neighborhoods while the city fathers worry that air pollution is killing the Spanish moss. The ear of memory rings with the voices of two Georgians who articulated the state's opposites: Racist...
...Princeton is unhappy not only with the rule, but with District II's unwillingness to select the Tigers despite the rule. "Our district doesn't have the guts to pick us and then have the NCAA make the decision," Huard said. "Our district hasn't even contested it. We need a test case." The Tigers are at a further disadvantage because District II usually makes its selections after District I, so if District I picks an EIBL team, District II decides it cannot choose one. "We knew it would happen," Huard added...
...current order, responded to this threat by impressing upon the students-as did the people in South Carolina who overturned a bus of black grammar school children-that, as one student has testified, "We will still have policemen shooting down blacks with sadistic looks and grins saying, pick up this nigger here and that nigger there...
...first pick in 1968 by the Montreal Expos in its player draft before the club's initial season? And with what National League team was he formerly affiliated? (Mack Jones and John Bateman were the number two and three picks respectively...
Howling Horns. Thousands of manufacturers have pried their way into the beat-the-burglar business. 3M Co., for example, sells a lock containing a small alarm that wails at the touch of a burglar's pick. Pinkerton's is promoting a $449 microwave unit called Minuteman II that rings like a fire siren when anything breaks its circuit. Sears, Roebuck's $99.50 Deluxe Ultrasonic Intruder Alarm blinks on lamps and sets off a shrieking noise if tripped; for a few dollars more a companion attachment outside the house will add a howling horn to the cacophony. Advertisements...