Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week a blue-ribbon commission appointed by Governor Pat Brown held the first of many closed-door sessions aimed at analyzing Watts's social and economic problems. A new city anti-poverty board had received $7,400,000 in federal funds, much of it to be spent in Watts. Fifty Los Angeles Negro businessmen started a drive to establish more Negro-owned stores in the community. The state opened headquarters in Watts to receive requests for social services...
What has totally revamped the industry is the advent of recording on a 1-in. ribbon of magnetized plastic film Perfected in 1947, tape recording stretches the music out on an operating table where, with the aid of a razor and splicing tape, small miracles of plastic surgery can be performed. Where once the artist recorded a work from beginning to end several times, then selected the version with the least mistakes, now he can do it piecemeal and at his leisure, confident that any wrong notes, known as "clams," will later be snipped out and replaced with the correct...
...after it has been cleared and that it reconsider as well the method of selecting a developer." (Italics supplied.) He continued that the recently enacted Housing Act of 1965 "makes it possible to achieve lower rents than were possible when the project was first planned." He proposed a blue-ribbon committee be selected to evaluate the best use of the land and select a project developer...
...hopes and desires of low income citizens." He termed the plan "a political whitewash... of a situation which has gotten too not politically" and went on to declare, "Unless this plan is changed to provide a halt to the eviction and demolition process while review of the blue-ribbon panel being made, Mayer Collins' statement will justly deserve a description as a political face-saving approach...
...sultry midsummer heat and a pursuing band of photographers, Jacqueline Kennedy looked cool and graceful as she led Daughter Caroline's pony, Leprechaun, into the ring for the 4-H Stablemates' Horse Show in Cape Cod's West Barnstable. Last year Caroline won a sixth-place ribbon in the show, but she failed to place this time in a "maiden equitation" event, left the family victories to Bobby Kennedy's daughters Kathleen and Mary Courtney, who trotted off with three blue ribbons. Later in the week, Jackie let John Jr. and Caroline host an ice-cream...