Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reactionary McCarthyite, despite any evidence to the contrary. Although O'Connor has consistently opposed capital punishment and compulsory civil commitment of drug addicts, and is strongly supporting Mayor Lindsay's civilian review board, many City liberals still insist on seeing him as a pawn of the reactionary Archbishop of Brooklyn...
...only two days later, as another stiffling afternoon began to cool down a little, that the nearby East New York section of Brooklyn blew. Calm had rested on the city like a highly flammable illusion through the record-breaking heat of early July. The Mayor's Office moved in nervously with quantities of community meetings and police re-inforcements at every hint of an outbreak. New Yorkers began to wonder if Lindsay's first summer would end without a baptism of violence in the ghettos. But, looking back, people will associate the summer of '66 with East New York...
...Mayor Lindsay, notfiied of the demonstration, flew by police helicopter from the Wall Street heliport to an airfield in Brooklyn. A few minutes later his black sedan drew up behind the crowd of shouting protestors. As he stepped out of the car and was recognized, there was sudden silence...
...term exceeded only by Brooklyn Representative Emanuel Celler, who was first elected in 1922, and Arizona's Senator Carl Hayden, who has served in both houses since...
...Margaret Sanger opened the nation's first birth control clinic in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. On the first day, 150 pram-pushing women from the neighborhood lined up to pay the 10? registration fee. Nine days later, the clinic was raided by policemen and-a particularly galling circumstance to her-policewomen...