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...nation committee in London banned racist South Africa from this year's Davis Cup competition. The last straw, apparently, was the government's recent refusal to grant black Tennis Star Arthur Ashe a visa to play in South African tournaments. In Melbourne, Australia, the quiet pro from Richmond termed the decision "an empty victory, from which I will get about five minutes' emotional satisfaction...
...numbers are on the upswing, the partners' lives are not. Traditionally, dating is the prelude to marriage, and many white Americans who accept the concept of black power would prefer to see that power insulated. When Dean Rusk's daughter wed a black in 1967, the Richmond News Leader spoke for many Southerners-and Northerners-who felt that mixed marriages were "eccentric," and that "anything which diminishes [Rusk's] personal acceptability is an affair of state...
Black journalists who prefer to work for black-managed or black-oriented publications find the choice severely limited. Among predominantly black general-audience newspapers, New York's Harlem-based weekly Amsterdam News is the largest, with a circulation of 82,123. The Baltimore, Richmond and Washington, D.C., editions of the Afro-American have a combined circulation of only 97,600. Muhammad Speaks, the propaganda organ of Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim sect, has a circulation of 400,000. The leading black magazine is the LIFE-like Ebony (circ. 1,216,626), published by John H. Johnson, who also...
...Maryland's Eastern Shore, then fell in love with them. "I guess it's because they have such honesty," Mrs. Garbisch says. Over a period of 25 years they bought around 2,600 pieces, many of which they have already given away to museums from Boston and Richmond to Fort Worth and San Francisco...