Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education in military officership. That fact should not shock anyone. If we are to be accepted on campus, we must be accepted for what we are, not for what various interest groups would like to reduce us to. AFROTC is not at Harvard or on any other campus to train students to go "tiptoeing through the tulips." AFROTC may need a little trimming here and there, but we hardly need the meat...
...would take a train. I would refuse to spend the day at Logan, waiting, hopefully, in a queue, like an impassive refugee, waiting for permission to move one again. For, I knew, if the lady from Eastern--or, for that matter, her twin at American or TWA--only wished, she could cancel life altogether, just as she had already cancelled the possibility of my reaching New York or Philadelphia. Then she and her crones would tag us and stamp us and send all of us off like so much excess baggage. So, partly in cowardice, partly in frustration, and mostly...
...phones are wrecked monthly. New York Telephone Co. last year lost nearly $1,000,000 in coins and spent $4,000,000 on repairs. The city's sidewalk phones are the worst hit: at least 25% are out of order all the time. At train stations, on subway platforms and in entire neighborhoods, it is sometimes impossible to find a working phone...
...ghetto requires financial backing and know-how. Black business in the past evolved behind the walls of segregation to meet a demand left unfulfilled by business firms operating in the general market (such as undertaking and insurance). Serving a limited market, these businesses provided few positions which could train black youths for business careers...
Orson Welles said it best. Confronted by Hollywood's movie-making paraphernalia, he chortled: "This is the biggest electric train any boy ever had to play with." Broadway Choreographer-Director Bob Fosse obviously felt the same exhilaration. But all he could do with that expensive equipment was play around. The result is a chuffing, tooting, O-gauge musical, Sweet Charity...