Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Temporary Immunization. It is perhaps only coincidence that none of the cities inoculated by major riot have yet suffered a second big outbreak; in the curious chemistry of violence, they seem to have achieved at least a temporary kind of immunization. No one pretends that the problems of the nation's blacks have been solved, and no one yet dares predict what may come after the Thermidor pause is over.* But governments and ghettos alike have become more sophisticated and skillful at handling their common difficulties. Expressing a widespread view, Jack Meltzer, director of the University of Chicago Center...
...SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY has emerged within the black community. The big outbursts starting with Harlem, 1964, were riots of rising expectations, of frenzy at the gap between reality and the promise of the Civil Rights Acts. The riots showed blacks they were not impotent, but also that their best hopes resided in themselves, not in the white man's City Hall or in Washington. Explains Junius Williams, 25, black founder of the Newark Area Planning Association: "The rebellion kicked off something in a lot of people's minds. We've got power, they said...
...York's liberal Mayor John Lindsay in November, says Jordan, will be a weathervane for blacks. If he loses to Democrat Mario Procaccino, a hard-line candidate, black hopes for political participation will sag. Blacks in Newark plan to run a candidate for mayor next year against big odds. The election of right-wing white Anthony Imperiale would be a traumatic setback. Blacks are fielding Richard Austin for mayor this year in Detroit, where almost 40% of the registered voters are black. In Atlanta, nine blacks are running for alderman and at least three will probably be elected...
...once the cameras start rolling, insists Walter, he is strictly supporting cast for the film's director, scriptwriter and female lead. And who might they be? "They," all rolled into one neat package, happen to be Writer-Comedienne Elaine May, who is now going into moviemaking in a big way. What's more, says Matthau, Elaine is "a tough little lady. Deviate by one single comma, and you find out who is in supreme authority." So how come he got into the movie in the first place? "A little fellow who may or may not have been...
...clients in Boston and New York. None of the corporations said to be involved have ever been represented by Fortas' old law firm, Arnold & Porter, which decided against taking him back after the Supreme Court affair-though his wife Carolyn is still a partner. "He lined up some big, lucrative retainers," reports a friend, "and suddenly his whole emotional outlook had changed. He knew he didn't have to give...