Word: want
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities to help blacks find jobs, business advice and capital. Brown, who worked off-season promoting Pepsi-Cola before he went to Hollywood, thinks that the next goal will be to encourage black businessmen to sell common stock and build large public corporations. "The black businessman does not want to give up 10% of his stock," Brown says. "He does not quite understand what it means to have control rather than the whole pie. Going big is an experience most black people never had." When black capitalism joins the big leagues, black athletes may be among the leaders...
...Symbol. Gucci spares neither time nor money to turn out the products that more and more people want in an increasingly affluent world. Even shopgirls and clerks seem willing to spend beyond their means to own the same kind of luggage or clothes as Jackie or Frankie or Princess Lee. The Gucci shoe, a chunky loafer with a metal snaffle across the instep and a price tag from $31 to $49, has become one of those subtleties of dress that are supposed to separate the Main Line from the wrong side of the tracks. Enriched by demand for such symbols...
When he told the high school girls "I want one of you to ask us if you can go for a ride on our bikes," the girls were way ahead of him. "Don't tell us any more," said one. "We know how to flirt." The drugstore loafers needed no instructions in hostility. "Are you a Commie? You on welfare? You got V.D.? Or hepatitis?" The questions followed the movie makers as they filmed onlookers from Arizona to Baton Rouge. On film, they retain the sting of spontaneity and conviction. The only query that could have hurt...
...Brazilian students at Harvard with the Inter-American University Foundation invite everyone to a South American carnival at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop JCR. Dress up in costume if you want to look like everyone else...
...possibilities, Apollo 11 scores high on the ratings. After all, if President Nixon, a man whose distinguished career is speckled with its own glorious moments, can call Sunday the proudest day of his life, what else can it be for the rest of us? And yes, Spiro, if you want to go to Mars, we're all for it as long as, next time, more color cameras are on board. For despite a few tedious stretches necessarily involved in transversing the macromiles, Apollo 11 carried off a splendid show. Despite the billions it cost, it was worth it. As even...