Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoking hashish ("hash"), taking mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, LSD ("acid"), using barbiturates and sedatives ("goofers," "downers," "red devils," "red birds," "pheenies," "green dragons," "yellow jackets," "tooies"), swallowing or injecting amphetamine stimulants ("crystal," "crank," "meth," "bennies," "dexies," "Christmas trees," "speed"). The prices of their mind excursions flutuate almost daily with the black market where kids must make their purchases. Depending on location, a dose of LSD or enough Methedrine for one injection costs around $3, while one Dexedrine pill can be bought for only 100. The marijuana contained in one "joint" or cigarette is worth around...
Perhaps the opening week's most promising premiere is Room 222 (ABC), in which Lloyd Haynes plays a black Mr. Novak, a masterful and empathic teacher of history in an urban high school. Supporting characters include an iconoclastic Jewish principal (Michael Constantine) who openly hates PTA meetings, and a stereotypical, wide-eyed, white apprentice teacher (Karen Valentine) capable of telling Haynes, "I think it's so significant that you're colored." Except for such sappy moments, Room 222 may prove to be more good-humoredly wise on the problems of school prejudice and board-of-education bureaucracy...
Organized labor and the black community are on a collision course...
...clash between those two viewpoints kindled tensions again last week in Pittsburgh, where 3,000 demonstrators paraded through downtown streets to demand more construction jobs for Negroes. "Freedom! Freedom!" chanted the marchers, as they raised clenched fists, waved black flags and circled building projects manned by unions whose memberships are almost exclusively white. More than 1,000 white demonstrators-clergymen, suburban housewives, students and even a few businessmen-marched along with ghetto militants...
...leaders of a coalition of black organizations are pressing for a guarantee of 2,500 journeymen's jobs in the Pittsburgh building trades over the next two years. After last week's march, the second in a month, contractors and unions offered 200 jobs but demanded a survey of the black community to see who wanted them. Incensed at such tactics, black leaders broke off negotiations. U.S. Labor Secretary George Shultz, responding to an appeal from Mayor Joseph Barr "to resolve the explosive situation," rushed a three-man mediating team to the tense city...