Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilkins, for one, sees "no discernible danger that the moderates will be overthrown." Young, similarly, estimates that no more than 3% of U.S. Ne groes applauded or participated in recent outbursts. What troubles him is that Congress, "in its obvious efforts to avoid rewarding the rioters," will embark on "a course...
...downtown Detroit costs $189 in a ghetto shop. In many slums, door-todoor salesmen saddle unsophisticated buyers with shoddy furniture and clothing that is overpriced to begin with and sometimes costs twice as much as the original price when exorbitant time-payment rates are added. To avoid gouging, slum dwellers in Harlem and other areas have begun forming co-ops aimed at keeping prices down...
...temptation, of course, is to avoid the decision. Riots, people say, are the result of revolting conditions-- they are the price for 200 years of white supremacy. Riots, the argument continues, will knit Negro communities together and will make Black men realize the depth of the struggle they must fight. Finally, riots start spontaneously; they are not planned weeks in advance by a handful of "highly trained agitators in some underground hideout." In conclusion, riots appear to be an unavoidable phenomenon dictated by the conditions which have come before; they are like any other natural disaster, only they...
State Negro leaders have not endorsed their favorite candidate to avoid alienating his white supporters. Although Negroes plan no bloc voting, State Treasurer William Winter and Jackson District Attorney William Waller have the largest Negro support. But if Winter, who is the nearest thing to a moderate, does get the bulk of the Negro vote in the first primary, he may lose much white support in the two-man runoff. A runoff is inevitable because no candidate is close to a majority...
Williams, 48, a stubborn segregationist who was stripped of his House seniority when he bolted the Democratic Party to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, is campaigning as-of all things -a middle-of-the-roader, and tries to avoid the old racial cliches...