Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radical dissenters are the members of the Free Wales Army: eight young members are now on trial in Swansea, and some evidence produced during the trial hints that they planned to storm Caernarvon Castle during the investiture. Some call the army "a standing joke . . . they couldn't blow the skin off a rice pudding." But the organization has managed to commit eleven acts of sabotage against public facilities since March...
...what they are against: it is not coincidence that the term Establishment was coined in the realm that will some day belong to Charles. He is the summa symbol of that Establishment, born old, committed, enmeshed, and he could no more drop out than change the color of his skin. The result is something of an intragenerational gap between the Prince and his contemporaries. With this in mind, TIME asked one of the Prince's fellow students to comment on the gulf that separates them. Jonathan Holmes, 21, affects theatrical sideburns and Nehru suits, is headed...
...most obvious new. emphasis was on racial equality, an important point to an audience at least 25% nonwhite. "We're one blood," Billy told his crowds passionately. "If we have dark skin, it's because God made us that way. Let's accept it and be proud of it! Black is beautiful, white is beautiful, yellow is beautiful-when Christ is present." To those who came forward to accept Christ at Graham's call (between 800 and 1,000 each night), Billy's charge included a similar theme: "Go to a person of another race...
...hand. Certain abnormalities in palm lines and fingerprint patterns can alert pediatric cardiologists to the existence of inborn heart defects, including those that develop in the womb, perhaps from a maternal infection such as rubella. Other aberrant patterns may indicate to specialists in the science of dermatoglyphics (literally, "skin carvings") the presence of Down's syndrome (mongolism) and other chromosomal disorders. Now, researchers have discovered that some unusual palm lines signal the possibility of childhood leukemia...
...being black." One magazine layout for Afro-Sheen, a hair preparation that is supposed to enhance the natural, curly look, carries the headline: "A beautiful new product for a beautiful new people." That is quite a change from the wording of older ads for cosmetics intended to bleach skin and straighten hair...