Word: cago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they see themselves as the last defenders of moral authority. That is why they still admire the military and regard the police as heroes. The New York Times's Tom Wicker had a revelation at the Chicago convention: "These were our children in the streets and the Chi cago police beat them up." The Gallup poll recorded that 56% of the people interviewed approved of the Chicago cops. What those people meant was: "Those were our chil dren who were doing the beating." They also meant that their view of themselves as a last moral bastion has become ever...
Artful Whitewash. Public opinion, nonetheless, continued overwhelmingly to support Hoover's view, which in turn reflected precisely the thoughts of Chi cago Mayor Richard Daley. The Mayor last week kept up his own counterbarrage to the "distortions" of the news media by broadcasting an hour-long documentary over 150 television sta tions throughout...
Humphrey's own showing has lengthened the odds against him. He has been beset by bad luck and bad judgment. On major issues, he seems to play both sides of the fence or simply straddle it. Last week he told one Chi cago audience he would mobilize all the resources of the nation to maintain law and order, then told an interviewer less than an hour later: "You know and I know that law and order is es sentially a local problem." Having once dismissed the late Robert Kennedy's proposal of a role for the National Liberation...
...Chuck Percy's luck finally ran out. He had accused Illinois' Democratic Governor Otto Kerner of being a stooge of Chicago Boss Richard Daley. So Daley went right ahead to deliver Chi- cago, where Negro voter registration was up by 31,000 to 346,000. More- over, the incredibly complex Illinois bal lot encouraged straight-ticket voting as President Johnson won the state over- whelmingly. As a result, moderate Re publicans lost one of the highly touted comers they had depended on to help rebuild a tattered party. >Roger Branigin, 62, a prosperous Indiana corporation and utilities attorney...
Haunted, but Hunting. Among teen agers, says the Rev. Andrew Greeley, a sociologist and assistant pastor of Chi cago's Christ the King Roman Catholic parish, "there is a hunger to find some thing of significance or meaning. These kids are haunted, but they are hunting." Church leaders have tried composing prayers in slang for the generation raised by Dick Clark - so far with little success...