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...associations and Chambers of Commerce. They held briefings and sent out thousands of letters informing executives about the program and recommending screening procedures to keep activists off payrolls. J. Edgar Hoover warned that union members would face "fanatic, anarchist revolutionaries" who have left behind them "a bitter wake of arson, vandalism, bombings and destruction across the nation" and who believe that "unions should be destroyed, along with the Government, the military, private industry and law enforcement." New York's Commerce and Industry Association held a meeting, closed to outsiders, at which 250 executives were given lengthy, detailed counsel...
Hayakawa urged the faculty to fight back-showing himself to be an obvious leader whom the trustees soon picked as acting president. When he took over, the campus had shut down -a battleground of arson, bombings and police raids. How would Hayakawa handle...
After five years of urban disturbances, the U.S. has become inured to grim box scores: the number of people killed, injured and arrested, the dollars lost from looting and arson. Recently, however, there has been a shift toward a different pattern of violence. The old-style, spontaneous and omnidirectional ghetto riots-such as those in Watts, Detroit and Newark-have been declining since 1967. Instead, city after city has seen a series of small-scale, sometimes premeditated and often fatal armed clashes. "Race-related disorders," reports Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, rose from...
...Gilligan by tearing down his Republican opponent, the now Senator William Saxbe of Ohio. Lest your readers be misled into believing that last year's Senate race was really between "a liberal dove candidate named John Gilligan" and a 'non-entity" (Saxbe) running a multimillion dollar demogogic campaign against "arson and rape," and "Ohio's Red Threat" (Gilligan), I would like to state the following facts...
...prosecution testimony produced deeply conflicting versions of the violence. The disturbances were touched off by the refusal of a white bowling alley to admit Negroes. This led to demonstrations by students at South Carolina State College and adjacent Claflin College, both predominantly Negro institutions. Three nights of rioting, arson and sniping followed, and the National Guard was called in. On the fourth night, the shooting occurred...