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...with many Americans, Powell's ancestry was beyond reliable reconstruction. For a short time, while attending Colgate, Powell passed for white and was heard to say of his fair complexion: "It's some kind of joke-white folks think I'm black and black folks think I'm white." Powell sought to confirm his blackness in his book Marching Blacks, published in 1945. He expressed pride in his runaway-slave grandfather who in his late years still bore a scar inflicted by an angry slave owner. Powell's father came to New York City...
...introduction of the Coop Xerox service has apparently not affected the other Xerox businesses in the Square, at least initially. When surveyed, most of the other copy companies believed the Coop entry into the copy business would do little to change the complexion of the market...
Harvard became more accurate in the second half, sinking 45 per cent of its attempts, but the complexion of the game had changed entirely. The Tigers, who have yet to lose at home this winter, were deadly from the floor, shooting 70 per cent. Taylor, after scoring only ten points in the first half, began driving on the Crimson with incredible success. With 2:20 elapsed in the third quarter, the Tigers had pulled even, 40-40, and their pressing tactics on defense were rattling the Crimson attack...
...Russians had also come to probe the political complexion of Sadat's new government. Since the days of Nikita Khrushchev, who once admitted to Sadat that "we cannot drive people into paradise with a stick," Moscow has hoped that the Egyptians would eventually find their own way into the socialist Eden. Egypt's only political party, the Arab Socialist Union, appeared an ideal ideological instrument for the journey; it was certainly no accident that Ali Sabry, Sadat's principal competitor for power, was until last month both the dominant voice within the A.S.U. and the Egyptian leader...
What does set Mrs. Hodges apart is that under her maiden name, Glenda Jackson, she has recently become one of the most important actresses in Britain and the U.S. as well. Despite a sallow complexion, slight figure and somewhat crooked teeth, she has drawn accolades for her enigmatic, sexually energetic characterizations. Her intricate rendition of the D.H. Lawrence heroine Gudrun in Women in Love won her an Oscar last week at the Academy Awards in Hollywood...