Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What this modest example suggests is that the American Jew is capable of responding creatively to the challenge presented by black antiSemitism. "We Jews, of all peoples," says Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland's Fairmount Temple, "should be able to feel empathy with Negro frustration and anger. When we look deep into our Jewish conscience, we admit that it is right that the Negro should expect more of us." Lelyveld has given his share; as a civil rights worker in Hattiesburg, Miss., five years ago he was attacked and severely beaten by two white men. Says Charles E. Silberman...
...Cleveland of New York's First National City Bank: "The U.S. gold stock has been reduced to the point where the U.S. guarantee to convert dollars into gold at $35 is no longer credible...
...restaurants or hotels-except as a servant. Now, almost the last vestige of segregation has been wiped off the law books. A Negro votes in the Senate; another sits on the Supreme Court; until this week, a third sat in the President's Cabinet. Black mayors govern Cleveland and Gary, Ind., while in the South, nearly 400 serve in all kinds of elective offices. Black faces are now common in TV commercials and magazine ads; some corporations prize black executives as highly as computers. Proportionally, there are far more blacks in good jobs today than there were eight years...
Holiday Bazookas. For 70 years, Venezuela has lusted after the five-eighths of Guyana that lie between the border and the Essequibo River, which divides the little country north and south. The existing border is based on an arbitration sponsored by President Cleveland, which, when finally handed down in 1899, was largely favorable to the British. Venezuela disputes the decision with an ardor that has increased as smaller Guyana became an independent nation and after Venezuela itself built highways, a steel mill, an aluminum plant and what will eventually be one of the world's largest hydroelectric projects...
...Which major league team offered $1,000,000 for Cleveland pitcher Herb Score? Whose line drive virtually ended Score's career...