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...than the protests began. The Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group headed by Joseph Colombo, the reputed don of one of New York City's five Mafia families, held a rally in Madison Square Garden, raising a $600,000 war chest to stop the production as a slur on Italian-Americans. Close to 100 letters of protest came in from Senators, Congressmen and New York State legislators. The Manhattan offices of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western, twice had to be evacuated because of bomb threats. In Los Angeles, police told the movie's producer...
Harold E. Clancy, president of the Boston Herald Traveler Corp., replied by calling David's statement a "slur on the judicial processes of Massachusetts...
...strengths was an almost verbatim paraphrase of the listing given me by his campaign manager. Grillo cleverly omits one-third of the listing: the word "liberal," which is ordinarily taken to refer to a candidate's political beliefs. 2) My listing of DiCara's appearance was not a slur, but merely an observation that he did not lit the image of the Harvard grandee. I submit that this image does exist, and that it would be a minus factor if DiCara conformed to it. Of my own height, waist-line, nose or hairline, of course, Grillo knows nothing. Lastly...
Last December he angered Spanish-speaking Americans with a racial slur made during an interview with TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer. Hoover's testiness led to 26 agents and clerks being ordered last fall to withdraw from college courses where professors had questioned Hoover's methods and techniques. Then in January it was discovered that one of them, Special Agent John Shaw, was forced to resign from the FBI and blacklisted by Hoover for writing a private letter to a college professor that was mildly critical of Hoover and the bureau...
...Nixonian play on Middle America's fears, perhaps best expressed in the November campaign, helped fuse black solidarity. The campaign ignored blacks, but in its stress on law-and-order, many blacks read a code for white fear of black crime, thus an anti-black slur. It encouraged a general turning inward that was already under way, creating a greater tolerance among blacks for other blacks' views and strategies. Integration-in the sense of accepting white values to the point where all black identity fades-is clearly no longer the immediate goal, not even for middle-class blacks...