Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro precincts, the pro-integration vote ran as high as 10 to 1; the heaviest vote against it came from white precincts that were totally unaffected by bussing now but fearful of it in the future. As a result, bussing is highly unlikely in Denver. Said Jesse Wagner: "The dream is over. The white majority is not willing to take on the commitment and make our country one." Unfortunately, Denver's whites have also strengthened the city's black separatists...
...York Times recently ran a movie ad for The Libertine showing the back of a girl, bare except for panties. The Daily News ran the same ad for one edition - but then sloppily sketched in a bra strap. Apparently, even the notion that the girl might be bare-chested was too much for the News censor...
...Killing of Sister George features the face of a woman into whose leonine hairdo is woven a nude female figure. Some papers ran the ad intact; some performed surgery on the figure's silhouetted breast. In Chicago, the Tribune, Daily News and Sun-Times all added lines of camouflage to comb out the hanger...
Publisher Charles Gould of the San Francisco Examiner says he has turned away "tens of thousands of dollars" in advertising that he found overly offensive. Still, the Examiner went ahead and ran the Sister George ad unretouched. Another display ad showed a motorcycle gang from Naked Angels closing in on a near-nude girl. The copy read, "Mad dogs from hell! Hunting down their prey with a quarter-ton of hot steel between their legs...
Even last, year, when the Faculty ran its much-advertised deficit which depleted the departmental credit balance by $131,000 and thus "necessitated" an increase in student fees, it shifted nearly twice that amount from the balance into the endowment (invested it), still leaving almost $600,000 unexpended endowment income for the year...