Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...park symbol of walkers in the park...
After trying for a while to think of some symbol that would be both restrained and striking, the group pounced eagerly upon an idea suggested by the hostess' son, S. Stinor Gimbel, 30, vice president in the family hops business. His idea: use the simple, familiar mathematical sign of equality. The result, stark white on black...
...Cabinet asked for buttons. Suddenly, the buttons are popping out all over. Algernon D. Black, chairman of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, has ordered 4,000. The Council for United Civil Rights Leadership, which coordinates seven major civil rights groups, has adopted the button as its symbol. The council has ordered 50,000 buttons, is distributing them to member organizations for sale at $1 each (manufacturer's price: 2?) to help finance demonstrations and court actions. The $1 emblems are selling fast, proving that even among civil rights buttons, all are not equal...
...sparked reactions like that of white parents in Montclair, N.J., who filed a federal suit under the 14th Amendment, claiming that Negro children were allowed free transfers while theirs were not. The long-honored concept of the neighborhood school-a homey place that children can walk to, a living symbol of local pride and progress-seems in danger...
Wall Street is more than just a seven-block thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan: it is also a marketplace for 17 million investing Americans, a worldwide symbol of capitalism, and a national pool of money from which American business draws its financial sustenance. The Street has meant profit for many investors and grief for some, and since World War II has raised $43 billion for the expansion and modernization of U.S. industry. Any man can buy a piece of what Wall Street offers with a down payment of as little as $2, but the men who really run the Street, says...