Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential is everywhere that Negroes are boxed into depressed areas," Rep. Frank Holgate (D-Roxbury) warned. He discounted the immediate possibility of riots in his own heavily-Negro district because, he said, low-income housing there provides Negroes with better conditions that a some other cities...
Last week in Montgomery, U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. ruled that civil righteousness is no excuse for lawlessness. A native Alabamian, and a Republican who was appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower, Johnson has probably handled more sticky civil rights cases than any other federal trial judge. More often than not, he has ruled in favor of the civil rights forces -as last spring, when he authorized the Selma-for-Montgomery Negro protest march. Says Johnson: "I'm not a segregationist, but I'm no crusader either. I just interpret...
During the twelve-month period ending June 30, there were 162 sexual assaults in the District of Columbia. This figures out at 20 per 100,000 population-roughly double the national average. Last month a teen-age Negro hid behind a stairwell door in the State Department Building, grabbed a 40year-old secretary around the breasts in broad daylight, fled when she screamed. Security guards were late in responding because they had been called to another part of the building to investigate an attempted purse-snatching. Last week additional guards were assigned to the building, and the head...
...swinging everything from stone hammers to 120-mm. mortars. But under the two centuries of the British raj, a structure of government and administration was slowly imposed on this subcontinent of chaos. What threatens it today is bureaucracy-an Indian nightmare more overwhelming than anything dreamed of by Kafka. District officials, who are nominally responsible for the "community development" of India's 567,000 villages, must file 280 reports to New Delhi a month. Development Minister S. K. Dey ruefully admits that none of the reports are read but brightly points out that all are dutifully filed away...
...overall 1964 syphilis incidence rate for the U.S. was 12 cases per 100,000, but there were wide local variations. The District of Columbia was the nation's VD capital with a rate of 87. Other high rates: Florida, 36; South Carolina, 35; Georgia, 27; North Carolina, 23. C.D.C. noted that increases reported from a particular area may result partly from better detection and reporting of cases. Mississippi reported a rate of only 16 per 100,000 and Virginia 7; New York reported 21, and Illinois only 11. One state reported none: North Dakota...