Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig...
...parlous condition of the nation's 3,200,000 farm workers has received little attention in the past compared with urban poverty, but both problems will be covered in a new program scheduled for publication this week. In it, the Administration will outline its specific proposals for the use of tax incentives to promote job-producing industrial activity in poverty areas. The White House has also directed the Labor and Agriculture departments to study the feasibility of extending the Taft-Hartley Act to cover farm workers. This move, long advocated by the A.F.L.C.I. O., would give them the right...
...Schwerner and Andrew Goodman had given their lives in Mississippi only a year earlier. To the new radical leaders, Farmer's type of militancy was not aggressive enough for the times. Another disappointment came in 1966, when Farmer was asked by the Johnson Administration to head a literacy program funded by a $900,000 grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity. The project was killed, reportedly because big-city politicians suspected that it would in effect become a black voter-registration drive and would cut into their white middle-class bastions...
...forever"-provided there were no new disturbances. - At Duke University in Durham, N.C., some 70 members of the Afro-American Society seized the ground floor of the administration building, dubbed it the "Malcolm X Liberation School" and held it for ten hours. Their principal desire: a black-studies program similar to those being started at Harvard, Yale and other Northern schools. When university officials finally gave the students one hour to vacate the building or face criminal prosecution, the rebels abandoned their sit-in. But just as it seemed that violence had been avoided by the administration's firmness...
Rank at the Top. Nina's hip style is not pure jazz, pure blues or pure anything. Rather, it is a swinging, soulful, infectious blend of every conceivable style that has come out of the "music of my people." Opening the Philadelphia program with The Times They Are AChangin, she made Bob Dylan's classic folk tune sound like a revivalist hymn; yet she never lost any of its satiric bite. At the Metropolitan, Langston Hughes' Backlash Blues had an angular, hard-rock quality that pointed up its bitter message: "Do you think that all colored people...