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From the government to the Red Sox, Boston is one of the whitest major cities in the country. Though it has grown almost exponentially in recent years, institutions have stubbornly maintained their former all-white status...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Racism and Boston | 5/16/1984 | See Source »

...case began in August 1982, when Geter was arrested by police investigating a rash of armed robberies in the Dallas suburbs and nearby Greenville, a community of 22,000, whose main street until 16 years ago boasted a sign reading THE BLACKEST LAND-THE WHITEST PEOPLE. Geter was an unlikely suspect. An engineering graduate of South Carolina State College, he had arrived in Greenville earlier in the year, one of six young blacks recruited by E-Systems, a large military and electronics contractor. A softspoken, nonsmoking teetotaler, he earned an annual salary of $24,000 and had a reputation among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Doubt Has Been Raised | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...teams in the league's whitest cities: benchwarmers were 37.5 percent whit, while in predominantly Black cities, where there is less need for white drawing cards, the percentage of white bench warmers was zero...

Author: By John Rippey, WITH WIRE REPORTS | Title: Researcher Stands by Study; NBA Racial Balance Skewed | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

Describing a tour of Europe, she lights upon the Queen of England, "the whitest woman in the world. She makes all the rest of us look like the Third World." Where, Bette asks sweetly, with only the faintest hint of bitchery, does Her Majesty get her hats? Pretending to sew, she conjures up a whole line of milliners in the basement of Buckingham Palace, threading needles for their monarch at that very moment. Then, she notes, there is that noble equestrienne, Princess Anne. How would Anne answer if someone asked how old she was? Bette wonders. Without a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Would Balanchine have made a masterpiece for Gelsey had she stayed? But Baryshnikov's offer was a plum that few ballerinas could have resisted. Keeping up with him was hard enough. And the glare of publicity that followed his grand jeté to the West offered his partner the brightest, whitest arena in which to succeed or fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: U.S. Ballet Soars | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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