Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hello, Congressman!" boomed a hanger-on as pudgy, pop-eyed Chicago Politico Roland V. Libonati strolled into his office...
...petition to the city council began simply: "We the undersigned wish to live in the city of Tuskegee." The 760 signers were former Negro citizens of Tuskegee, Ala. (pop. 4,700), who last July saw their homes jigsawed out of the city limits by the state legislature. The gerrymander bill left exactly nine Negro voters within the city limits (instead of 420), touched off a Negro boycott of white merchants. "My God," said a council member as he reviewed the petition for readmittance last week.'Tf we back down now, we'll lose the whole works." The petition...
...year local elections, often treacherous to politicians and political pundits, usually turn on a name, a face or a voice. Among the names, faces and voices that came through last week: CJ In Pittsburgh (pop. 680,000), Mayor Dave Lawrence, 68, a Democratic boss who runs the wards and precincts with a clenched fist and welcomes civic redevelopment projects with an open hand (TIME, Nov. 4), ignored feeble Republican attempts to trip him on such issues as Little Rock and a local trolley strike (typically, both strikers and management came to Dave Lawrence's defense), rolled to a fourth...
...hipped, volatile young woman who can look one moment as serene and majestic as Nefertiti, and the next as disorganized and disheveled as a college girl at exam time. Her villa regularly swarms with visiting girls and women; when Aisha entertains, its marble walls ring with female giggles and pop tunes (some Aisha favorites: Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong) like a U.S. girls' dormitory. Aisha has abandoned the slacks and blue jeans which once raised orthodox eyebrows in pre-independence Morocco, but still favors slim-cut black skirts with sport blouses or wool cardigans. She uses pink lipstick, paints...
WHRB rarely plays pop music or rock 'n' roll, despite their popularity, but this is at least justified. Almost every other AM station in the Boston area broadcasts popular music. Harvard students' source of entertainment, in this instance, is not dependent on WHRB...