Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is a Negro housing project. What is happening is not very dramatic; it is certainly not very unusual. Two white patrolmen have stopped, as they do two or three times a week, in front of one of the low, red-brick buildings that are each nearly a block long...
Casteau (pop. 1,800) is so small and undistinguished that it does not even rate a line in Michelin's guidebook. But it has some old red brick barracks on an 800-acre military reservation. By next spring, construction teams intend to throw up a modern headquarters, heliport, and 600 prefabricated houses for SHAPE'S staff of about 2,000 men and their numerous dependents. The cost -$43 million-will be shared by the 14 surviving NATO military members. France avoided a share of the bill by withdrawing from NATO's military committee...
Nearly two decades ago, seven men stepped hopelessly from a van in the red brick forecourt of Berlin's Spandau Prison. They were the senior survivors of the 22 Nazis brought to trial for major war crimes at Nürnberg. Their compatriots in crime-among them Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Göring and Wehrmacht Chief Wilhelrn Keitel-had escaped imprisonment by either suicide or the noose...
...Nothing Is the Same." So did Father Groppi. For eleven nights, his youthful band marched in front of Judge Cannon's large brick colonial house, and for eleven nights crowds of whites gathered to jeer. "What are you niggers doing here?" yelled the mob, adding, "Kill! Kill! Kill the jungle bunnies!" while Judge Cannon watched, almost unbelieving, from the inside. "Nothing is the same any more," he said. Soon, eggs and rocks followed the invective, and the number of hecklers rose to 2,000. On the advice of local authorities, Governor Warren Knowles last week sent in 500 National...
...grade teacher at Sacred Heart School in Melrose Park, last month joined Martin Luther King's march for integrated housing through the streets of Chicago. In the heavily Catholic Gage Park neighborhood, an angry youth in a jeering mob yelled, "This is for you, nun!" and threw a brick at her. The missile struck Sister Angelica on the back of her head, opened a cut that soaked her black veil and white collar with blood. Unashamed, the crowd cheered...