Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE. Journalists from around the world report on civil war in Nigeria, the gypsy problem in England, pornography in Denmark, spas in Germany, driving in Russia...
...Fortas came prepared for the second with an annotated list of 14 previous Justices who had advised Presidents. The first Chief Justice, John Jay (1789-1795) counseled George Washington.* The fifth, Roger Taney, helped Andrew Jackson. Associate Justice David Davis, Lincoln's close friend and executor, advised the Civil War President, while Louis Brandeis was called in by Woodrow Wilson during several World War I crises. Chief Justice Wil liam Howard Taft, in Fortas' words, "performed extensive advisory services for Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...
...still the leader in preprimary polls, but he faces a broad spectrum of dissatisfaction in Arkansas. The state's many hawks are angered by his Viet Nam stand. Labor officials are testy about his indifference. Negroes and white liberals are fed up with his consistent votes against civil rights laws, most recently open housing. He has even irritated some up-country puritans because he wrote an article for Playboy that appeared embarrassingly close to a gatefold photograph of what one foe described, in a shocked voice, as "a nekkid girl...
...Clyde M. Warrior, 28, Oklahoma Ponca Indian who founded and led the National Indian Youth Council to fight for "Red Power" and against the frustrations he encountered that turned him into an alcoholic; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Enid, Okla. In 1963, when few Americans linked Indians with civil rights, Warrior participated in the March on Washington, shortly after formed his youth council of 2,000 braves, which is dedicated to winning real acceptance for the nation's 600,000 red men and women...
...Rabbits and the Patsey Conroys), shunned by native Americans who despised his rough, alien ways, his papist religion and his uncouth brogue, the average Irish immigrant had to work at the most menial and degrading jobs, and he lived in desperate resentment. He certainly had no stake in the Civil War; indeed, it was the news that he would be subjected to a draft lottery, while well-heeled citizens could buy exemption for $300, that finally sparked frustration into rage and sent him into the streets...