Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education writer for the Birmingham News was not far off when he wrote recently of a mythical district whose 1965 desegregation plan "would admit a Negro child to a white school in 1975, providing that the child brushed its teeth immediately before coming to school every day, had an IQ of 185 and was examined thoroughly each morning by the school nurse to determine if it had contracted venereal disease during the night...
...Guff. The upheavals in San Francisco and St. Louis were both kindled by the same spark: the shooting of a Negro by white police. In St. Louis, youthful Negroes on the western edges of the downtown district demonstrated for six nights after an armed-robbery suspect was shot to death, breaking the windows of autos and buildings, pitching stones and bottles at policemen, stoning firemen who replied to false alarms-and all the while shouting "Black power...
...freshmen such as Michigan's Weston Vivian and New York's Lester Wolff. So far, however, no candidate of either party who ran on an antiwar platform has won. Last week, in a bitter rerun of a contested Democratic primary in a predominantly Jewish and Italian-American district in Manhattan, five-term Congressman Leonard Farbstein, who supports the Administration's Viet Nam policy, won renomination by a bigger margin than in June. In most races, candidates prefer not to raise the Viet Nam issue. "I call it," says Iowa's G.O.P. Chairman Robert Ray, "an underriding...
...last visit to one of the totally bare cells, claimed Jordan, he was kept naked for almost eleven days, deprived of heat, light, bedding, ventilation, medical treatment and the most basic sanitary facilities. He appealed to San Francisco's U.S. District Judge George B. Harris, who thereupon indignantly issued his circuit's first federal injunction against state prison officials. Impressed with Jordan's "clear and convincing" testimony, which vividly described cells caked with human excrement, Judge Harris saw a patent violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." He ordered California...
...increased salaries. The groups will very likely propose ways to use civilians more extensively to do clerical and desk jobs, and to provide attorneys within the departments to advise the police. A very revolutionary proposal for a single law enforcement office combining the functions of both the police and district attorney was seriously considered earlier in the year, but has apparently been dropped...