Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TELEVISION Wednesday, September 25 HERE COME THE BRIDES (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Comedy series about a pack of sex-starved lumberjacks working in Seattle after the Civil War. Premiere...
What he meant, he explained in Anaheim, was that he would not use federal funds specifically to promote integration. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Government money would still be denied systems that persisted in practicing segregation...
...responsible law officers around the nation commended the Chicago police for their behavior. The mayor compounded his mistake by issuing his approval of shooting looters. The overall effect was to undermine the police department's chain of command and encourage the ranks to react violently at the later civil disturbances. That they...
More dismal still, civil liberties are nearly unknown in Portugal. Press censorship has been in force almost continually since 1926. The secret police, P.I.D.E., have banned books by such seemingly noncontroversial writers as Will Durant and Paul Claudel. Political opponents of the regime are regularly put into preventive detention for up to six months. The P.I.D.E. jailed Mario Scares, a lawyer and leading critic of the Salazar regime, a total of 13 times before exiling him without trial last March to the tiny island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea. The number of legal emigrants and clandestinos voting...
...Deep South itself, Mississippi--with its title of "Poorest State In The Nation" and its legendary smalltown sheriffs--may be more glamorous than Alabama; but Mississippi's notoriety has made it the target of many more civil rights projects than have ever come to Alabama. It's possible to make a good case for Southwest Georgia as the most segregated area in the country, but Georgia also contains semi-progressive Atlanta and black legislators like Julian Bond. South Carolina has Storm Thurmond, Louisiana has Leander Perez, and Arkansas and Tennessee have their residual rednecks. But for over-all misery--that...