Word: dayton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights leaders split over philosophy and strategy, racial disturbances continued to break out in scattered spots throughout the U.S.-as they had nearly every other week this summer: ¶Roving bands of Negro youths roamed through the Negro section of Dayton-looting, stoning buses and breaking store windows-after a Negro man was fatally wounded by shotgun blasts fired from a passing car containing three white men. Some 1,000 National Guardsmen and several hundred city policemen and sheriff's deputies sealed off the west-side area, which contains about 15,000 of Dayton...
...past twelve months than in 17 previous years, 250 Lansing workers recently won pay hikes and benefits worth $100,000 a year after a three-day walkout that shut down everything but the city's golf courses and graveyards. Garbage men have been on strike in Dayton and Youngstown, Ohio, and in Louisville, where one militant leader last week promised to hold out "until the garbage backs up to the heavens." Around Detroit and Los , Angeles, teachers and welfare workers have joined the parade...
...Dudley House and Cleveland, and A. Douglas Matthews '66-3 of Lowell House and Fall River, Associate Editors; Gall L. Johnson '67 of Moors Hall and Wahpeton, N.D., Treasurer; J. Pendexter Macdonald '67 of Dudley House and Chicago, General Manager; and Hunter Lewis '67 of Straus Hall and Dayton, Promotion Manager...
...explanation of Reston's rise that crops up in magazine articles is that his sense of inferiority to his wife drove him to it. He married Sarah (Sally) Jane Fulton on Christmas Eve, 1935. Her father was a lawyer. His was an immigrant mechanic; the family had moved to Dayton from Clydebank, Scotland when Reston was ten. At Illinois she was Phi Beta Kappa. For Reston, according to a friend, college "didn't take." Reston says simply: "I married above...
Bailing the Boat. Presenting a gold medal to Teacher of the Year Mona Dayton in the Cabinet Room, Johnson expressed his delight in escaping for the nonce from "battles and soldiers and the bitterness of war," praised the Tucson first-grade teacher for having "taken the great outdoors as her classroom and the great desert as her desk." At an Agriculture Department ceremony honoring cost-cutting employees, Skipper Johnson likened the Administration's campaign against waste to "bailing a boat - you have to keep at it; there is no time to rest." Mockingly, he scolded the Agriculture...