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Vappi built the Harvard married-student dormitories and was a chief contractor in the construction of the Prudential Building. The new men's dormitory, scheduled for completion late this year, is adjacent to Harkness Commons...
...promising sign is that Jones has already met three times with Contractor Anthony Imperiale, leader of a vociferous group of angry whites who have been arming themselves and patrolling Newark in "jungle cruisers" in order to "repel an invasion" (TIME, March 29). Surprisingly, the black militant and the white vigilante have reached an understanding. "I respect him," says Jones. "He doesn't lie like white liberals. He knows exactly what I'm trying to do, and I know right where...
...more meaningful offer was made by the nation's largest housebuilding contractor, Levitt & Sons, which pledged to end racial discrimination in its 80,000 dwelling units from coast to coast and in all its new projects in the U.S. and abroad. Whatever the ultimate effect of these and a score of other proposals made in Martin Luther King's name, the unexpected restraint shown by black and white together last week may prove a worthy memorial to King's cause and, just possibly, a harbinger of greater interracial cooperation and understanding in the future...
...three times in the head, reportedly by a man who lives in Murray's housing project. Police charged unemployed Factory Hand Clarence C. Underwood with the killing and said he dropped a gun when accosted and cried: "Shoot me-Martin Luther King is dead!" In the Virgin Islands, Contractor Roger D. McKibbin Jr. was knifed to death at a drive-in ice-cream store while his three young children watched. Police arrested Michael Raymond Crowe, 29, a former mental patient from New York who was said to have vowed to kill the first white...
...were devastating the Negro neighborhoods, they were iust as disastrously poisoning some sections of the white community. In the city's blue-collar Italian wards, scores of whites are arming themselves-with scant discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs "to repel an invasion." Led by Contractor Anthony Imperiale, who deeply fears new and worse conflagrations in Newark, the vigilantes now prowl the city in "Jungle Cruisers," and are said to possess an arsenal of 1,000 rifles, an armored car and five helicopters...