Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was not Birmingham. It was Chicago, with one of the nation's biggest, most potentially explosive Negro ghettos. In the wake of the Birmingham violence, Chicago's Negroes have been gathering in street-corner sympathy meetings and protest marches. But a more basic reason for Chicago's racial disturbances is to be found in a welfare crisis that has been seething throughout Illinois for months...
...wake of the golfing boom-now the biggest in the history of the sport-is a burgeoning, popular, profitable boomlet: compact golf...
...Shaw. This gallimaufry of tired Shavianisms on the religious temper, the military mind, and the desperate plight of the idle rich is a theatrical sleeping pill. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-try to wake the play...
Added to the staff of the Moreland Commission, reappraising state liquor laws in the wake of New York's recent licensing scandals: John M. Dewey, 27, Harvard Law '62, youngest son of former Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Will he follow in Dad's racket-busting footsteps to a political career? "Of course, I have thought about it, but I have no interest in politics right...
Rivals are so quick to follow in the wake of any successful product that smaller, weaker originators are frequently swamped. In industry, this is now known as the Lestoil syndrome because of the experience of Lestoil Products of Holyoke, Mass. Lestoil scored a hit with its liquid household cleanser and gleefully watched sales climb to $25 million. Then Lever Brothers followed with Handy Andy, Procter & Gamble with Mr. Clean; recently Colgate weighed in with liquid Ajax. Lestoil's sales have fallen to $16 million, and the company has had to stop paying dividends...