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...learning how to create black self-help groups, to force coalitions of white civic leaders and black activists where necessary, and to work among the black poor to give them hope and the techniques to improve their living conditions. It is hard, painstaking, unromantic work in which success seldom comes swiftly, but once achieved, can have lasting effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson: One Leader Among Many | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...Williamson fete's bitter-enders left (at half past midnight) than Lucy Alexander Winchester, the petite and pretty White House social secretary, began fretting about the early-April state dinner for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Nor is that the only social sail on the horizon. Lucy seldom has the luxury of juggling only one dinner's china at a time; before the duke and duchess come a group of African ambassadors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Enlivening the Gray | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

Coach Bill McCurdy is unable to make any predictions, "I don't really know how we'll fare since we've seldom entered competition this early in the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Heads South To Compete in Invitational | 3/25/1970 | See Source »

...dirtiest I have ever seen ?worse than London?and is by all odds the hardest to use. A visitor now is usually spared the rigors of long rail journeys because there are hardly any trains. Even airline efficiency in the U.S. is no longer so great. I have seldom experienced anything in Europe that approaches those hour-long holds over Kennedy Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...THIS WAY, Hudson comes on like The Band's spiritual leader. But in the flesh, the leader is Jamie Robertson, Songwriter, lead guitarist, this music is his music. It is everyone else's, too. Robertson seldom sings, but at the center of the stage, it is hard to take your eyes away from him. He plays guitar like a mathematical guitar genius," Bob Dylan once said. Robertson and his guitar are one. Or is he making love to it like B.B. King to die-hard Lucille? A "missed it" when he is too slow...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Concerts The Band at Boston College last Saturday | 2/27/1970 | See Source »

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