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...Dead-End Street. Newark's Negroes find plenty wrong with the city. Although Newark has two Negroes on its nine-man city council, neither was on hand to fill the ghetto's leadership vacuum during the riots: Councilman Irvine Turner was ill; Councilman Calvin West was in Boston for a convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The city has no civilian review board (Mayor Addonizio refers all charges of police brutality to the FBI). Nor did it have any Negro police officers above the rank of lieutenant before last week (when Addonizio hastily...
...part of the world that had gone no place since the Civil War, the directionless road of vaudevillian fame was far more apt as a symbol of Arkansas' dead-end economic and political condition than as a sampling of Ozark humor. For all its majestic forests and fertile bottom lands, its bountiful natural resources and the Mississippi on its eastern frontier, the state remained for long decades a kind of limboland...
...theater district, and in every house I pass there is a David Merrick production. Whenever I doodle, I doodle only one word: SOON. I'll never stop working. It's the only thing I know. It's going to go on and on and on." And on, until the Dead-End Kid from St. Louis has kicked over the sign that says Broadway is a dead-end street...
...Early reports indicate extensive and encouraging voluntary compliance with the new act," began U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. "Regrettably, however, such responsible compliance is neither uniform nor complete." With that, Katzenbach last week ordered federal voting examiners into five more "dead-end" counties in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi; in all, federal registrars were now at work in 14 Deep South counties that have failed to comply with the new Voting Rights Act. In three of the five new counties, more than 100% of all voting-age whites were on the voting rolls, while as few as 4.6% of the Negroes...
...rolls, one white lounger turned to a friend as the registration lines formed and sneered: "You got any cats, dogs or mules to bring in and register?" But there was little heckling and no violence. Law of the Land. Smoothly as Katzenbach's operation went in the selected dead-end counties, he conceded that things were "pretty bleak" elsewhere -and civil rights leaders were quick to complain. Martin Luther King objected: "Our experience with the South compels us to say that if the cautious restraint persists, much of the purpose of the act can be defeated." King seemed...