Word: racially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most serious offense. What is more, Powell's practices as a committee chairman have been no different in principle from those of many of the other major committee heads in the House. Singling out Powell for punishment would, therefore, leave the Democrats wide open to the charge of racial bias...
...Head Start in Philadelphia, picks up $10,800 a year as a metallurgical engineer at Ford, and farms 600 acres of Dakota wheat land. He has a lightning-fast left jab, a rifling right arm, and reads medieval metaphysicians. He campaigned for Reagan, booed George Wallace, and fought for racial integration. He can dance all night, and if he hasn't smoked pot himself, knows someone who has. He tucks a copy of Playboy into his concerto score as he records with the Boston Philharmonic...
...South Africa. In announcing the withdrawal, the editors conceded that it may not be the business of banks "to make foreign policy"; but so great is the evil of apartheid, they added, that some kind of token protest against the bank's acquiescence in South Africa's racial policies was necessary...
...Sweet Charlie, by David Westheimer. Broadway's racial conscience quickens whenever it pairs a white man and a Negro woman or a Negro man and a white woman to see which combination will lure more customers to the box office. Two seasons ago, the lucky combination was The Owl and the Pussycat, juxtaposing an erudite white bookstore clerk and a hoydenish Negro prostitute. My Sweet Charlie pairs a highly articulate Negro lawyer (Louis Gossett) from the North and a slatternly white mushhead of 17 (Bonnie Bedelia). One after the other, they break into a Gulf Coast cottage in search...
President Truman issued an executive order in July of 1948 abolishing racial segregation in the armed forces. By the mid '50's the plan was an accomplished fact -- and the change had produced enough fascinating material on race relations to stuff a hundred theses. It might have taken decades of observing society-at-large to get the same information...