Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viciousness of the Black Panther Party." But Francis Andrews, a lawyer for the Panthers, charged that Hampton had been "assassinated" by the police. Pictures indicated that Hampton had been shot in bed; the Panthers claimed that he was asleep, the police that he was firing from the bed. Renault Robinson, president of the Afro-American Patrolmen's League, said that, based on evidence at the scene of the shootout, his organization did not believe the official police version of the incident. "We found no evidence that anyone had fired from inside the apartment," he said. "The fact that...
This heresy has been argued most forcefully by Economists Robinson G. Hollister and John L. Palmer in a study for the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty. They contend that the labor shortages produced by an inflationary boom enable many of the poor to land jobs that otherwise would remain beyond their reach. Using complex mathematical formulas, they support earlier calculations that a reduction in the unemployment rate from 5.4% to 3.5%-experienced by the U.S. between April 1964 and November 1966-creates 1,042,000 full-time jobs for poor people who otherwise would...
Between these "commercials," the kids follow the inhabitants of Sesame Street: Gordon and Susan, a black science teacher and his wife (Matt Robinson and Loretta Long); Mr. Hooper, owner of the neighborhood candy store (Will Lee); Bob (Bob McGrath), another teacher; and Buddy and Jim (Brandon Maggart and James Catusi), two bumblers who teach lessons in logic through their own laughable illogic...
...open meeting sponsored by the GSD Student Senate will be held Wednesday evening in the Great Space in Robinson Hall to discuss the hiring of black and other minority group workers for the project. Acting dean Maurice D. Kilbridge will attend...
LAND OF THE GIANTS (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). Sugar Ray Robinson is a trumpet-playing giant who promises freedom to the crew of a wrecked spaceship if Copilot Don Marshall will agree to give him jazz lessons on the horn...