Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CORE people continued to yell, and Secret Servicemen stirred uneasily. Johnson cut the ribbon, then stood straight and unsmiling while a Marine band played the national anthem. Secret Service Chief James Rowley removed his hat-but he held it with his left hand and kept his right ominously in his coat pocket. Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman was so unnerved by the disturbance that he forgot to take off his hat until the final few bars of the anthem were played. "This is certainly disgraceful," muttered Harriman. Later, when the President was asked what his reaction...
More responsible civil rights advocates publicly washed their hands of the Brooklyn militants. CORE'S National Director James Farmer, himself a rough-tough fighter who had plans of his own for demonstrations on the fairgrounds, suspended Brunson's chapter from the national organization. The Queens district attorney got a court injunction against the stall-in. President Johnson and key members of the U.S. Senate warned that demonstrations of that kind would serve only to stiffen opposition to civil rights progress...
...list of dos and don'ts: "Just leave your car and walk off. You don't have to run out of gas. Simply decide you want to get some fresh air, or you could complain that your car is overheating. You could lock bumpers with a CORE car in front...
...open the fair did, despite the abortive effort by CORE'S Brooklyn chapter to jam up all the approaches with stalled cars and subways. And it was very close to the readiness Fair Boss Robert Moses had prophesied all along. Externally, only a handful of buildings were not complete, ranging from the exposed rafters of the Belgian Village to a few forlorn steel girders sticking out of the ground at the site of the Hall of Science...
...Meyer-Wohl-Kraft program claims that the best way to help transportation in the greater metropolitan area is to alleviate the congestion in the core of the city. To this end, they proposed improving the circulation patterns on city streets, enforcing and modifying traffic laws, controlling or monitoring entry ramps on vital expressways, installing a modern-day signal control system, and providing more off-street parking in the city...