Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aretha grew up on the fringe of Detroit's Negro East Side in the same neighborhood with several singers-to-be ?Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and all of the Four Tops. The Franklin house was a big tree-shaded one with a tidy lawn, even though it did have cockroaches in the kitchen and rats in the basement. Yet the gamy life of the ghetto was only half a block away. Recalls Aretha's brother Cecil, 28: "The people that you saw who had any measure of success were the pimp and the hustler, the numbers...
What happened was that this guy they call El Cordobés, who is the bullfighting champion of Spain, sort of a Sugar Ray Robinson-type with flashy clothes and cars and goodness knows how many mill in the bank, was out there doing a fancy two-step with this bull about the size of a Volkswagen, when all of a sudden another guy climbed into the ring. His name was Miguelin; he was a rank contender, but he thought he ought to be champ. So what did Miguelin do? He strolled up to El Cordobés' bull...
...artsy-craftsy people in Robinson Hall turned the lobby into a convention hall. They hung a low ceiling of streamers and balloons, and carried "Grope in '68" posters bobbing above the heads of the crowd...
...recommendations are meant to be temporary changes--until Harvard etablishes a program of its own in African Studies. "We started out planning to make more major recommendations," Michael D. Robinson '71, one of the authors of the report, said yesterday, "but we were preempted in that by the Rosovsky committee so we decided to concentrate on short term measures...
...Robinson added that the HPC had contacted professors at M.I.T. and B.U. who think the idea is workable and said the plan "isn't meeting any objections here...