Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cool any potential riot fever, the city had allotted an additional $3,000,000 for this summer's Head Start and recreation programs. So well did the city seem to be handling its problems that Congress of Racial Equality Director Floyd McKissick excluded Detroit last winter when he drew up a list of twelve cities where racial trouble was likely to flare...
...York's East Harlem, Puerto Ricans broke windows, looted and sniped from rooftops for three nights after a policeman fatally shot a man who had pulled a knife on him. At one point, the youths who led the rioting drew a chalk line across Third Avenue and tauntingly wrote: "Puerto Rican territory. Don't cross, flatfoot...
...present home-came into office in 1955, owning one weekly newspaper. By being "frugal" with his $10,000-a-year gubernatorial salary, as he puts it, he managed to acquire four more weeklies, and some real estate in Huntsville, as well as the big house on the hill (which drew 1,100 paying guests during the first weekend it was open, for a $1,375 gross...
...lauded the rebellious Huks as valiant and correct revolutionary fighters. In Indonesia, China is trying to reorganize the decimated Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.), utilizing what is left of the Chinese population after last year's massacre. It has long aided the guerrillas in Thailand's northeast, recently drew neutralist Prince Sihanouk's ire for attempting the same thing in Cambodia. And the Chinese have continued, of course, to supply the Pathet Lao guerrillas of Laos with arms, aid and propaganda backing...
...evaluation. In the 1830s, a maritime scene by Robert Salmon (see color) brought around $30 apiece. Today, Salmons sell for between $10,000 and $15,000. A recent exhibit of 93 canvases at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., organized with the help of Dartmouth Art Historian John Wilmerding, drew some 8,000 visitors, and resulted in the rediscovery of 30 Salmons by dealers and Boston families...