Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like Detroit -has launched a major summer enter tainment program designed to cool the ghettos by keeping the kids off the streets. "We have done everything in this city to make sure we have a stable summer," said Mayor John Lindsay. But after one of those "stabilizing" events, a Central Park rock-'n'-roll concert featuring Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, a boisterous band of some 150 Negroes wandered down toward midtown Manhattan, heaved trash baskets through the windows of three Fifth Avenue clothing stores and helped themselves. The looters' favorite was a $56 Austrian alpaca sweater...
...suggests that the U.S. may soon find that it needs similar professional forces-possibly organized by the states, but more probably a federal force deployed in various urban areas-able to move swiftly and break up riots with minimal violence. "Americans have never liked to garrison troops in the central city," warned Wilson, "but we may have to reassess this position...
...years to its curriculum-plus the innovation that officer candidates can be flunked if they fail to measure up. Next year South Viet Nam will begin its version of a war college for mid-career officers. So high is the enthusiasm for it that the general in charge of central ARVN training wants to be in the first batch of students. Americans in Viet Nam like to recall that only a little more than a decade ago there was an army with much the same set of problems now plaguing South Viet Nam: the Koreans, today as feared...
...progress. Back in 1900, Paris showed Rodin and all those boys, so we felt that in 1967, we owed it to contemporary artists to show what they could do." Canada's Expo corporation commissioned 40 Canadian sculptors to design $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to fill the central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more than 15 sculptors. All are Canadians except for the U.S.'s Alexander Calder, whose gigantic $200,000 stainless steel Man on the International Nickel Co. plaza greets Expo...
...TRANSPORTATION. Railroads, even recently lucrative ones, showed a drop for the quarter. The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central, still waiting to merge, each had lower earnings for the half-year (although the Central managed to move out of the red in the second quarter), while a drop in car-loadings affected healthier lines like the Norfolk & Western, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Airlines were mixed...