Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JEWISH MOTHER culls some of the feebler witticisms from Dan Greenburg's fitfully satiric guidebook and further dilutes them with a few primitive racial clichés. Veteran Comedienne Molly Picon clucks and coos authentically, but Bubi, her baby, is, of all people, hulking Negro Comic Godfrey Cambridge wearing little-boy clothes (brought in, he says, because "there aren't too many Negro theater parties"). Some things in the book did strike home, yet Seymour Vall's two-character revue is nothing but the schlock of recognition...
...Barnard now had a delicate problem. Haupt was of a complicated racial mixture (part white, part Bantu, part Malay, perhaps even part Hottentot) that is classified as "Colored" under South Africa's race laws. Dr. Barnard asked Blaiberg whether he would object to receiving a Colored man's heart. No, replied the desperate patient-who, like Washkansky, happened to be Jewish. Then the surgeons had to get consent from Haupt's next of kin. His wife Dorothy collapsed when she was told he could not survive. To protect themselves, the doctors asked Haupt's mother. Widowed...
...blacks to negotiate with whites as equals. Though generally pessimistic about the prospects for integration, Curle sees such a greater sense of black identity and confidence as a prerequisite. In support, he again points to the underdeveloped world, this time to Kenya. There, in the late 1950's bitter racial fighting preceded independence. But Kenya's new national dignity permitted the reconciliation of the British and their former colonials. And Jomo Kenyata, at first bitterly condemned by the British for leading the notorious Mau-Maus, now sports a white cabinet minister and has turned into one of Africa's elder...
...Reading your cover story on Bob Hope [Dec. 22] was like opening the very best Christmas gift. In a world torn by war and famine and racial tensions, it's gratifying to know that we can still have hope-and Hope. WILLIAM DOWLER San Francisco...
...statement signed by 37 moderate sinologists, perceivees a "defeatist" attitude in U.S. China policy and declares, "We are prevailing." The policee chief of Cedar Rapids, Ia., reports the season's first riot. He terms it "a minor disturbance," and adds, "We really don't think it's racial thing at all." CBS news reports that Cedar Rapids in missing...