Word: ralph
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...ineptitude and uncertainty in meeting the Negro's legitimate needs, there is hardly a major city in the U.S. that does not live with the fear of turmoil in the streets. Last week the train of death and destruction slashed deep scars in Cleveland, where Mayor Ralph Locher had ignored persistent warnings of Negro unrest, and scratched New York City, where Mayor John Lindsay had set a notable pattern of personal concern for ghetto residents...
...Ralph Ellison, author of invisible Man, will read from a novel now in progress tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Burr Hall, Room...
Conduct, Not Content. The evidence failed to show that he had even planned to, ruled California's highest court as it reversed Klor's conviction. Basing its reasoning in large part on the Supreme Court decision affirming Eros Publisher Ralph Ginzburg's five-year federal sentence for sending obscene matter through the mails, the California Supreme Court held that obscenity cases should turn more on the objective conduct of the defendant than on a judge or jury's subjective opinion about the content of his product...
Costly Rescue. Frye quarreled with Hughes and quit in 1947 while the company was in the throes of serious losses. In return for more common stock, Hughes came forward with a major loan ($10 million) to keep TWA flying. In time, he hired a gifted administrator, Ralph Damon, who got the airline back into the black by pushing low-cost tourist fares. In 1956, Damon died of pneumonia, and TWA's fortunes plunged into five more years of turbulence. By now, Hughes had virtually vanished from sight, dealing with TWA's officers by phone, often in the dead...
July 26: Ralph Ellison, author of the Invisible Man, who will read from a novel now in progress...