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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tighten up controls over pill-type drugs. Last week the House passed, 402 to 0, and sent to the Senate a bill requiring that records be kept, from lab to drugstore, on sales of barbiturates ("goofballs") and amphetamines. Illicit sales of such drugs to persons under 21 could be punished by two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order...
...Recently, the States-Item hired a Negro sports columnist. The Houston Chronicle, which has shifted from anti to pro integration, recently editorialized against a proposed state constitutional amendment to preserve discriminatory housing: "We need no laws aimed at Negroes, for that is what this is. We need no Mississippi-type 'solutions' in Texas." Explains Editorial Editor Dr. James Clements: "The time has gone when anyone can editorially support segregation. We get letters from irate readers, but no mass of letters...
...best of the three pieces. The Comedy was the closest thing to "Jazz," both musically and choreographically influ-performance. John Lewis's music is heavily influenced by the Jazz style he must use in the Modern Jazz Quartet. The Comedy depicts characters from the Commedia dell'Arte, an improvisational type of popular drama which Lewis believes was to the late seventeenth century as jazz is to the middle twentieth. The ballet was first performed under Lewis's baton in Paris...
...paper's eight-column page has been reduced to five, its 7½-point type enlarged to nine point. Black column rules have been removed, leaving wide swatches of white space. A pair of capsule news columns have been added. "Focus," appearing daily in the left-hand column of the front page, will summarize trends in politics, business, sports, science and the arts; "The News-Briefly," which appears on page 2, will capsule the day's events. With the addition of twelve reporters and some editorial shifts, Canham expects staffers to be freer than ever to write stories...
Mortimer is an advertising and marketing expert in an industry that leans on that type of executive, but "Tex" Cook is different. An engineer, he spent eleven years with Procter & Gamble as a plant man before moving to General Foods in 1942 to oversee new building. Not until 1951 did he switch to marketing. He became product manager of Maxwell House instant coffee, which the company was about to introduce with a "tiny flavor buds" campaign. Instant Maxwell bloomed. The company's coffee sales jumped from 10% of the U.S. market to a commanding 34% , brought in one-third...