Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit's black Mayor Coleman Young raced to the scene and spent the whole night trying to calm the crowds. So did a number of other officials and clergymen. Young also ordered in some 600 police, armed with riot helmets, nightsticks and tear gas, but under strict orders that "the use of fatal force [is] prohibited unless ... life is endangered." Not a shot was fired, and crowds dispersed at dawn...
...bilious tirade would not be worth a moment's thought if it had come off a mimeograph machine in some dank cellar. Instead, The Camp of the Saints arrives trailing clouds of praise from French savants, including Dramatist Jean Anouilh ("A haunting book of ir resistible force and calm logic"), with the imprint of a respected U.S. publisher and a teasing pre-publication ad campaign ("The end of the white world is near"). Before the book is called "courageous" or "provocative," a small distinction should be made. The portrait of racial enmity is one matter. The exacerbation is quite...
...USUALLY calm audience at the Loeb Drama Center suddenly forgets itself and yells "Author! Author!" after a performance of The Hemingway Play it's easy to imagine Frederic Hunter taking off out the back door. He is an unassuming man, humble about himself and his work. He'd rather write than talk about it. He is tall, thin, soft-spoken and wears tennis shoes. He has large hands and holds doors open for people in public places. He doesn't look like a Californian...
...Denis Healey who stepped up to the dispatch box in the House of Commons. In the ominous tones he reserves for grave occasions, Wilson told the House of the "economic catastrophe" facing the country. To reverse the tide of inflation (running at an annual rate of 28%) and to calm the jitters of foreign creditors who had caused the pound sterling to hit an all-time low, Wilson formally spelled out the details of Healey's proposed new program of wage, price and dividend controls (TIME, July...
State of Emergency. Despite the surface calm, however, reported TIME Correspondent William Stewart from New Delhi, there was no question that India and its imperious Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, were struggling through a political crisis that would profoundly affect the country's future. The state of emergency, proclaimed on June 26 at Mrs. Gandhi's behest, had suspended political freedoms and given her near dictatorial powers. Banned were 26 minor political factions representing the most extreme leftist and rightist movements. More than 1,000 political dissidents-of all ideological shadings-already have been jailed, uninformed of the charges...