Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, last week's Solidarity Day, the climactic event of the Poor People's Campaign, bore little resemblance to the famous March on Washington in August 1963. Though the turnout was an impressive 55,000, it did not even come close to the 200,000 of the earlier march. More important than size was spirit. The 1963 demonstration was suffused with the hope that the last vestiges of legal segregation would soon disappear. Most indeed did, but that did not prove enough; laws aside, the reality of discrimination and poverty remained. The 1968 rally was motivated by disillusionment...
Whatever the reason, Martin Luther King's final enterprise seems close to foundering. Resurrection City is an unhappy, unfriendly-and increasingly dangerous-collection of disparate groups of the poor. The National Capitol Parks Police estimate that 100 assaults and other violent incidents have occurred since the shacks were set up in mid-May, and at least 20 visitors have been robbed, beaten or stabbed outside the encampment fence. "There are rapes, robberies and cuttings every day," said Alvin Jackson, who resigned in anger last week as the camp's chief security marshal, "and there is nothing...
...author and publisher presented the library with $750,000 in royalties from the more than 1,250,000 copies sold so far. Said Jacqueline Kennedy in accepting the gift: "All the pain of the book, and now this noble gesture of such generosity makes the circle come around and close with healing...
...least $3 billion and perhaps a good deal more). "Andrew Mellon was possibly the most brilliant businessman whom our society has produced," wrote FORTUNE'S Charles J. V. Murphy recently. "He was a banker who understood corporations and an investor who understood men." The two brothers were so close that they ran a joint bank account for as long as they were both alive. The brothers' philosophy: Bet on a man with an idea, taking a share in the business while making the loan; leave him alone unless he gets into difficulty; when he prospers...
...capacity for facing and surviving disaster that are very moving and very rare. Perhaps we were, all of us-pimps, whores, racketeers, church members, and children-bound together by the nature of our oppression. If so, within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed and danced and forgot all about...