Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shown a steely sense of mission in handing down controversial decisions. He was charged with "coddling the Communists" when he blocked a New York City teacher-loyalty campaign in the 1950s, and he was even more the target of acrimony when he ordered the integration of hostile all-white districts in 1963. But after last fall's bitter, 36-day New York City teacher strike, he was the only major participant to emerge with his reputation intact. It was Allen's plan to place a state trustee in charge of a troubled experimental district that eventually brought...
...Kuhn was a compromise choice. Caught in a squeeze play between Mike Burke, president of the New York Yankees, and Charles ("Chub") Feeney, vice president of the San Francisco Giants, the squabbling owners surprised themselves by deciding unanimously on Pinch Hitter Kuhn on the first vote. Said Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn: "The two leagues have been feuding for so long I didn't think we could even agree on the sun rising in the east...
Public apathy may also be a mea sure of what Wayne State Sociologist Joseph L. Albini calls a community's "crime tolerance." Middle-class white mothers, for example, rarely let gang at tacks on their children go unreported...
Ghetto mothers, however, may well re gard such incidents as necessary tests of their youngsters' ability to survive the slum's daily violence. Often, of course, Negro slum dwellers not only passively accept crime but also actively admire the criminals - especially if their victims are white. Many Harlemites, said a local N.A.A.C.P. official recently, "seem to have the idea that [black criminals] are some sort of 20th century Robin Hoods...
Weird electronic music. A psychedelic title card. And then, the opening scene of ABC's new "second season" show, Turn-On. Two computer operators, one white and one black, sit with their backs to the camera facing a madly flashing IBM 360, or something. Says black to white, "I've never programmed a program before." He must be the only second-season TV man in Hollywood who hasn't. By last week, eight midseason replacement shows had made their debuts, and they all looked like print-outs from a stuck computer...