Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Research Group, the Black Economic Research Center and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The party also has sponsors with channels to potential financial supporters. The include David Hunter, executive director of the Stern Fund, Adam Hochschild, publisher of Mother Jones, Archibald Gillies, former director of the John Hay Whitney Foundation, and Washington businessman Stanley Weiss. For the moment, the party reports funds of about $35,000. Much of this is supposed to represent small contributions from television viewers who saw Commoner promoting the idea of a new party along with his book The Politics of Energy...
...York's Whitney Museum, a Segal introspective...
...voids between people and the circumspectness of their gestures. It is a somber sight, this "populist art," as one of Segal's admirers dubbed it; and it gives a special density to the retrospective of 100 works by Segal that is on display at Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
Among Commoner's fellow organizers are Chicago Author Studs Terkel (Working); Maggie Kuhn of the Gray Panthers in Philadelphia; Harriet Barlow of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in Washington; Archibald Gillies, former head of the John Hay Whitney Foundation in New York City; and Political Strategist Don Rose, who earlier this year helped Jane Byrne win her upset victory over Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic...
...have long been the targets of petty, and occasionally serious, persecution. Some have been roughed up by police, subjected to threatening interrogation, and accused of working for the CIA. Others have been targets of whispered charges of debauchery and homosexuality. Last summer the New York Times's Craig Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold Piper were tried for "slander and defamation" for quoting a dissident's family as saying they thought his televised confession looked fake. After the reporters refused to publish retractions, they were each fined $72.50 plus court costs...