Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheep Meadow of Manhattan's Central Park, amid a sprinkling of Viet Cong flags, most of the crowd of 40,000 were subdued and conventionally dressed. The only trouble came when a phalanx of pro-war marchers showed up after a Loyalty Day parade farther downtown that included independence-minded Byelorussians, Third Avenue drunks and a Chinese-American chanting "Bomb Peiping...
Before Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, much of Newark's Central Ward was a tinderbox waiting for the torch -and in the incendiary aftermath of the assassination, dozens of blazes were set by arsonists. They might have done much worse damage, except that - in contrast with last summer - black slum dwellers raced to help firemen, not hin der them. The major reason was that black militants such as Playwright Le-Roi Jones had reached a grudging armistice with the city's white authorities (TIME, April 26) and passed the word down to the streets: Cool...
Almost uglier than the flames were the rumors infecting the Central Ward next day and threatening to destroy the new mood of conciliation. The fire, they said, was the work of white arsonists bent on genocide rather than mere homicide. The fire department's arson squad meantime was questioning more than 50 residents in the area of the fire...
...problems of the Methodist Church, most significantly its racially segregated organization.* White-run Methodist churches in the South have been al lowed by their denomination to bar Negroes from membership; as a result, Southern communities often have separate white and Negro Methodist congregations. The new denomination eliminates the Central Jurisdiction, a euphemism for a segregated administrative arm that has overseen most Negro Methodist churches. But it still retains ten all-Negro Methodist conferences in the South as separately administered units. The planners of the new church body have set 1972 as a target date for erasing the last vestiges...
...moved into its third week, it had produced little more than some annoying static in phone service. Beyond a rash of minor sabotage that damaged cables and equipment, the only major effect was a suspension of new phone installations as Bell System companies kept skeleton repair crews close to central offices. Filling in for striking operators, gravel-voiced executives on twelve-hour switchboard shifts were all thumbs at first, but by week's end most were well on the way to mastering their temporary tasks...