Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting with John Kennedy's race for the Senate in 1952, Lawrence Francis O'Brien's string of major political successes has included J.F.K.'s 1958 reelection, the presidential victory in 1960 and then Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964. As Hubert Humphrey knew when he persuaded the veteran tactician to serve as his campaign manager and as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, O'Brien's impact in any campaign is not merely talismanic. In the art of political organization, Larry O'Brien is a dry-land Nelson. In J.F.K...
...sheriff who is pulled one way by the Klan, the other way by his better instincts; the Klan wins. Huie also hopes that movies will be made of some of his civil rights books. "One of the great tragedies is that we've never had realistic films about race hatred in the U.S.," he says. At the moment, a small studio is making preparations to film Huie's book about the Neshoba murders, Three Lives for Mississippi. Before the film could be made, however, Huie once again had to go through the distasteful experience of shelling out money...
...countdown came over an amplified telephone hookup beamed from Cleveland. "One minute before race time, gentlemen," said the starter. In Pasadena, Calif., the three-man team starting from California Institute of Technology climbed into their red-and-white Volkswagen bus, which sported a sign reading "Socket-to-me." Across the continent, in Cambridge, Mass., a two-man competing team slipped into their modified white Corvair. Said the starter: "Get ready to throw your switches." Then, with a hum rather than the usual roar, the Great Electric-Car Race...
...that has been gerrymandered to include most of the city's Negro districts. No white cop had ever been assigned to Zone 13, and none of the Negroes covering that beat ever patrolled the city's white sections. Charging that the police department was assigning them by race, twelve of St. Petersburg's 14 Negro officers sued the city two years ago under the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment...
...EXCEPTION AND THE RULE, adapted from Brecht by the West Side Story team, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel. Oilmen race across an Asian desert...