Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...badges of the United Community Corp., Newark's antipoverty organization, also patrolled the ghetto-and to better effect. The kids made an impressive contribution to cool; so did a courageous "Walk for Understanding" by 25,000 people, predominantly white suburbanites, who hiked through the city's smoldering Central Ward to show white concern with ghetto conditions. Nonetheless, some 270 fires were set (kerosene tins, shredded mattresses and broken Molotov-cocktail bottles were found in many gutted buildings), and as usual the hardest-hit were the Negro slum dwellers...
Chicago's toll of eleven deaths, 911 injuries, 3,965 arrests and $11 million in damage might have soared far higher without the efforts of Rumor Central, a ten-month-old agency that checked out reports and squelched unfounded fears. Praised by the Kerner riot commission for its work during last year's strife, Rumor Central added 35 volunteers to its staff of 47 and in this year's five-day flare-up handled 40,000 telephone calls-most of them concerning such fantasies as the lynching of two nuns and the landing of Stokely Carmichael from...
Broadway Producer Hillard Elkins was strolling beside Manhattan's Central Park last week when he got an itch to speak with the man directing the revival of his musical Golden Boy, in rehearsal at the George Abbott Theater some 20 blocks away. Elkins sat down on the nearest bench, opened his briefcase and picked up the telephone. "Hello, mobile. Come in, please. This is JL 5-5035," he began, and in moments the director was on the other end of the line...
...everyone who has made the pilgrimage to Indonesia's temple of Borobudur, just outside Jogjakarta, ranks the soaring pyramidal shrine as one of the world's most magnificent examples of Buddhist architecture. Virtually untouched by tourism, the massive monument rises symmetrically from the serene green plains of central Java...
...again beginning to emphasize zeal and fervor in both sermon and song. And Negro pastors-although still a voice of reason in the ghetto-are getting tougher. One of Detroit's most militant black power leaders now is the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., who calls his Central United Church of Christ "the shrine of the Black Madonna." Concurrently, Negro pastors in a number of white Protestant denominations are forming separate blocs of their own, demanding more say in church affairs and more forceful programs in behalf of Negroes...