Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Security precautions were tightened after three Arab immigrants from Yemen were arrested and indicted by a New York grand jury in an alleged plot to assassinate Nixon. Acting on an informer's tip, police found weapons in the suspects' Brooklyn apartment. There was speculation, however, that the "conspiracy" was invented by the suspects' disgruntled former roommate...
ROBERT ROSOFSKY Brooklyn Sir: The frustration of the school crisis for me, as a U.F.T. member, reminds me of when my brother used to tease me and Mommy smacked me for retaliating. Please find out who's making whose life miserable before you smack the U.F.T. again...
There will be no lack of interesting new faces in the House. One will be that of Democrat Shirley Chisholm, 43, who won in a newly created Brooklyn district. Mrs. Chisholm will be the first Negro woman ever to become a member of the House of Representatives. She defeated another Negro?CORE Founder James Farmer?in a contest in which sex, of all things, was the big issue. Farmer aides conducted an underground campaign based on the premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House...
...concerned, he is contemporary in both media. "My work represents me," he says firmly. "And I am the present. I am a sensitized creature viewing the world, and this is my statement on it." If his caricatures testify to a caustic intelligence, his watercolors reveal the telltale heart. A Brooklyn boy, Levine often visited his father's dress factory, and his deft, murkily lit watercolors of those scenes show that he remembers them fondly and well. He also spent many happy hours at Coney Island, and his sparkling yet dreamily poetic sketches recapture the sleepy magic of glinting waves...
...rolled around the unspeakably dirty floor of the main schoolroom with a little British bastard who had insulted my country." Such experiences, he later felt, gave him a "too romantic, too idealistic view of America ... I had no experience of evil in terms of Americans." Briton Hadden: born in Brooklyn to a prosperous banking family, wanted to become a professional baseball player but wasn't that good; mischievous, mercurial and iconoclastic. After they met, and competed, at both Hotchkiss and Yale, they performed the extraordinary feat of raising $85,675 to launch their magazine. It was Hadden who developed...