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...President Harry Truman appointed Sengstacke, a vocal critic of discrimination in the military, to the committee charged with eradicating race barriers in the armed forces. Sengstacke also pushed the Brooklyn Dodgers to sign Jackie Robinson. Sengstacke was considered close to Chicago's Democratic mayors, but refused Mayor Richard J. Daley's entreaties that he help prevent violence during the riots of the summer of 1967. At the time, he told Daley he'd been "giving you suggestions for two years and you've been ignoring them. And now you want me to create a miracle...
DIED. MIKE ROYKO, 64, caustic Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist who ruled the Windy City from his Page 3 pulpit; after surgery for an aneurysm; in Chicago. From high-society dames to low-down pols (a frequent target was former Mayor Richard J. Daley), no one was safe from Royko's pen, including himself, as he learned when minorities protested his tactless quips. But Royko remained unrepentantly irreverent in his column...
...Daley said the microphone was open to other groups endorsing the protest to voice their views, though no representatives from such groups appeared...
...Harvard College Democrats, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Stu- dents Association have also endorsed dropping the charges. However, all of the above endorsers do not necessarily support other SYC issues, according to Daley...
...Daley said the group is trying to get broad support for its cause. "We want to present a united front, to pull all diverse forces together to work against racism," he said...