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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That type of separation was outlawed in 1964 by the public-accommodation section of the Federal Civil Rights Act, which applied to the cafe because substantial quantities of food and beverages served came from outside the state. But such new-found laws were not about to move Proprietor A. W. Richberg. When the Federal Government sued, Richberg simply renamed the cafe's white section "Dixie Diner Club" and added bylaws promising "the creation of an atmosphere conducive to the development of connoisseurs of discriminating taste and epicurean pleasures." The name was all that Richberg changed...
...university until a new president takes over, the trustees chose Andrew W. Cordier, dean of Columbia's School of International Affairs and veteran U.N. official. At 67, Cordier is even older than Kirk. He made it clear that he does not want the top job permanently...
...stock trading. So last week, when the head men of the New York Stock Exchange appeared before the Securities and Exchange Commission during its eight-week-old inquiry into brokerage practices, it was only natural that they denounced government proposals to change the system. Big Board President Robert W. Haack warned that abolishing the minimum rates would cripple the world's largest securities market, with damaging consequences for brokerage firms and investors alike. "I have no doubt," he said, "that the securities markets as we know them today would cease to exist." The government and Wall Street thus reached...
...decade ago, TV Producer-Perform er David Susskind was generating some bright cultural rays with quality net work dramas and a provocative new talk show, Open End. At the same time, California Industrialist Norton W. Simon, president of Hunt Foods & In dustries', was making commercial his tory by buying up one new company after another. Since then, Susskind has been putting somewhat less emphasis on culture, and Simon has become in creasingly interested in it. Stung by a number of critically acclaimed produc tions that proved to be financial flops, Susskind has expanded into bread-and-butter situation shows...
STEPHEN CRANE by R. W. Stallman. 664 pages. Braziller...