Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groups have been evaluating and re-evaluating their work. Their goal is destroying the power of an anti-democratic, segregated South and reconstituting this power in the hands of those whom it now oppresses: Negroes and poor whites. Specifically this means integrating the lunch counters, the schools, the ballot box, and the labor market. But there has never been unanimous agreement, either within the movement or within any particular organization, on the tactics that should be used...
...Johnson's first, last and only public words on the subject of Viet Nam last week. Indeed, he ordered an Administration-wide news blackout that was broken only by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in an appearance before the House Armed Services Committee to testify on U.S. defenses (see box...
Highly Volatile. Early last week in Montreal, Michelle Duclos loaded the trunk of her white 1961 Rambler with a brown cardboard box full of dynamite -each stick wrapped in pages of a French-language newspaper. The New Yorkers almost certainly could have purchased or stolen their dynamite closer to home, but getting it from Quebec terrorists added to the internationalism...
...been the leading filer in federal courts of amicus briefs aimed at social changes-from trustbusting to school desegregation. Since the N.A.A.C.P. began leading the way in 1909, more and more minority groups have also found in court a chance for expression that eludes them at the ballot box. In 1945, the American Jewish Congress started a legal arm that has since filed scores of amicus briefs not only concerned with Jewish causes but also with the rights of Catholics, Negroes and Puerto Ricans. No amicus quite matches the 44-year-old American Civil Liberties Union, which, under Executive Director...
...that bygone era when Newton could conceive of the solar system as a kind of eternal clockwork, and most people thought of the social system in much the same terms, a favorite toy for grownups was the sort of music box in which tiny lords and ladies, shepherds and shepherdesses perform an elaborate, unchanging dance. Portuguese Author Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young...