Word: shade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fantail. The Conserver's C.O., Lieut. Commander Fred Hilder, 34, a plump, pipe-smoking Pennsylvanian, has deep respect for the current Soviet captain's pushing ability. Says Hilder: "He's a hell of a big bear of a man, barechested, and wears a white cloth to shade his head from the sun. And he's got a ship that can turn on a dime...
...commonly accepted-if ill-defined-name for this reversal of sentiment is, of course, "white backlash," a catchall term that accommodates every shade of reaction from out-and-out bigotry through unexpected fear to sorrowful inaction. In whatever guise, backlash now threatens not only to overshadow most other issues in many parts of the nation at the polls next month but also to negate some of the signal achievements for which the U.S. Negro has striven so hard...
...bill, Lyndon Johnson indicated last week that he would disinter it when he delivers his State of the Union message in January. But, given the current climate of opinion in the U.S. and the likelihood that the 90th Congress will be a shade or two to the right of the 89th, there is scant probability that a similar bill will fare any better in 1967 than the original...
...Only the Dodge Charger and the Mustang fastback bucked the trend and will sell a shade lower. But this has been accomplished by turning several standard items into option als for which the buyer now must pay extra...
...scene that avoids nearly every nudenik movie cliché, the shy blonde hasn't a stitch on by the time she reproachfully tells her playboy-pianist: "I don't trust you." He, in turn, observes boyish discretion by bounding up at intervals to tussle with a window shade that lets in too much light. The sly tone is sustained through a dormitory matron's wonderfully irrelevant lecture on morals to the film's bittersweet climax in Prague, where the boy's parents forcibly separate their wayward son from his unexpected guest by dragging...