Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This music reached its peak in the late fifties and early sixties when Bluesmen like Elmore James, Sonny Boy Wiliamson, The Muddy Waters Band, B. B. King and others sold thousands of records in the black ghettos of the North and dusty darktowns of the South. Depits its success in black communiites, it was considered too raw, earthy and sexual for the white teenage audience and was black-balled by Top-40 radio stations...
...chief stumbling block is All-American goal-tender Ken Dryden--the single most important reason for Cornell's success in the past three years. The 6-3, 210-pound Dryden is the East's top defender, averaging less than two goals allowed per game. If he is hot, Harvard's chances will be virtually...
...should be noted that Moynihan's own solutions to poverty in America, while they may have no more potential for success than those of his predecessors, are at least fairly ambitious: he has long argued for the need to spend large amounts of money in fighting poverty through such innovations as family allowances and guaranteed employment. But judging by President Nixon's message on poverty last week, there is little reason to believe that Moynihan has brought the Administration over to his side on these issues. On the other hand, Moynihan's conservative analysis of the community action programs...
RACIAL solidarity--"our ability to market ethnically"--is an important selling point for Williams and a clue to the success of his black business. "It would be very difficult for us at this time to have a white store manager, while we are still establishing our credibility within the community," Williams explained...
Black economic power is not the only, nor the final, solution in unraveling the overlapping cause-and-effect ghetto problems of poverty and discrimination. But the relatively untried approach seems to be meeting with a large degree of success in the enthusiastically diverse activities of Freedom Industries...