Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are people," said Richard Nixon in Chicago last week, "who think I am a candidate." There certainly were in Washington where his friends opened headquarters for the Nixon for President Committee at 1726 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., a block west of the White House...
...massive timber gate and electrified barbed-wire fence block the road between Yugoslavia and Albania-respectively, the most accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed guards on the Albanian side open the gate for authorized visitors, then bolt it behind them with a heavy padlock. Last week Roland Flamini of TIME's Vienna bureau, traveling as a "businessman" on a British passport, flew to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, where he joined a guided tour that took him to Albania for a two-day visit. His report...
...Negro. Like Dowling, West Dallas, Gray, and Elgin, Wheeler is one of the main arteries of Black Houston. As with the others, traffic on Wheeler is heavy throughout the day, and during rush hours, it is often bumper-to-bumper. But for the last month, Wheeler, in the five-block vicinty of Houston's predominantly Negro Texas Southern University, has been transformed. The first sign of trouble came one day last month, when Wheeler was filled with people, some three to four hundred chanting and singing T.S.U. students...
...auditorium and began massing to march on the courthouse. Some 200 persons marched around the University of Houston campus to enlist the support of Negro students there, and then headed downtown. One of the marchers shouted up at Lee Otis Johnson, who was heading the four-block long line, "Hey, Lee Otis, from now on, we're callin' you Moses. You're leading the brothers out of the ghetto." Johnson's reign, however, was short. Moments later, as the marchers passed by the riot cars which had been parked during the last week on 24-hour alert at Jeppesen stadium...
...clear that these gestures by themselves will not still Southern zeal to quash the guidelines. If the Administration wants them kept, it will have to fight a determined battle. If desegregation is to proceed at all, it must do so. President Johnson has spoken out forcefully against the Republican block grant proposal; he should make it clear that he supports the guidelines, and he should do everything in his power to preserve them...