Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ulster then will probably disappear from the front pages of the New York Times and from the Huntley-Brinkley show for the rest of the year. It will be back, however, next year regardless of what solutions are proposed for the province's difficulties. Ulster has been undergoing periodic civil war since 1640 and there's no reason to suppose that the province's factions will lay down their arms and their tradition-encrusted minds this year...
...last two years, civil rights organizations sought to force the government to provide equal voting rights, to end officially-condoned discrimination in housing, jobs, and education. The organizations got no-where with the usual meetings and pamphlets. So in August, 1968, they began civil rights marches...
...number are finding work in the apparel factories and metalworking plants that are beginning to sprout in the lush countryside. Blacks comprise about 40% of the county's population, and to them and their white neighbors, Jim Crow is alive and well despite the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Negroes still sit in the balcony when they go to the movies in Carthage (pop. 2,442), the county seat, and use separate waiting rooms when they visit local white doctors. Earlier this month, three Negro women were beaten when they brought their clothes to a white self...
...Dirksen, an old supporter of Joe McCarthy. who almost singlehanded kept the utterly superfluous Subversive Activities Control Board in business two years ago. It was Ev, too, who had been seeking a constitutional convention to overturn the Supreme Court's one-man one-vote decision. Yet the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965, and last year's open housing bill, perhaps would not have passed without Dirksen's aid. Similarly, the 1963 nuclear test-ban treaty might not have cleared the Senate had not the minority leader, long a vocal opponent of the treaty, searched...
General Electric lifted its wholesale prices by about 3% on electric ranges, refrigerators, freezers and home laundries. General Foods' Maxwell House raised the wholesale price of coffee by 5%. The air-fare increase, approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board, will be effective Oct. 1. The average first-class fare will go up 7%, the average coach fare 3½%. It will be the second increase this year for the financially ailing airlines. In March, the CAB approved a 4% rise...