Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hulan Edwin Jack was brought to New York City as a youngster by his father, a minister of the African Orthodox Church. Hulan pushed a broom at the Peerless Paper Box Co., Inc., pushed right on up to become one of the firm's vice presidents. He applied equal energy to Democratic politics in Harlem, where, as a faithful Tammany Hall wheel horse, he won seven elections to the state assembly. Jack's jackpot came in 1953 when Tammany, forewarned of Republican plans to nominate a Negro for borough president of Manhattan, dumped two white hopefuls, gave Jack...
This scene last week gave clear evidence that the decade-old civil war between pencil and TV newsmen is still being fought. Indeed, new broadsides have erupted from California to New York over a new issue: segregation, or separate-but-equal press conferences...
...their side, the TV men, many of them able newsmen, claim equal right to first crack at the news, and charge that dual press conferences may be separate but they can never be equal. Said Coy Watson, news director for Sacramento's KCRA-TV: "News is only news once." Fortnight ago all three major TV networks-NBC, CBS and ABC-announced that their men would no longer appear at separate conferences scheduled for TV by the Governors of New York and California, but they would send pencil reporters to the press conferences and leave the cameras at home...
...Greenville cases, heart massage was tried in 18. Though only two patients survived (fortunately without brain damage). Dr. Bomar believes that all should have had an equal chance. Therefore, he suggests, no surgeon should be I allowed in an operating room, no matter what his specialty or what part of the body he is to work on, unless he is thoroughly familiar with emergency measures to get a stopped heart going again...
Most of Alpert's fellow railroad men look on his plea for subsidy with the same disapproval they show of kids who throw rocks at trains. What they do want is equal treatment with all other forms of transportation, including tax equality or outright tax relief. In this, they have a shining example to encourage them: the Long Island Rail Road, which once vied with the New Haven in the race to ruin, now enjoys a reputation as the best New York commuter railroad...