Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constituency, had turned cool and often hostile. Jeers greeted his name at synagogues; "hate mail" came into his office. City Hall became a fortress against an angry city, and Lindsay spent more and more time at Gracie Mansion, the city's elegant mayoral residence overlooking the East River. Only a short time ago, it had looked as if Lindsay could charm the whole city, which is about as charmproof as any in the world; now the whole community seemed to have turned against him. Says one City Hall acquaintance: "The birds have started circling around, as they watch...
...third grade, 52% of the children were behind, while 72% of the fourth grade lagged. The notion is often advanced that black parents do not care. The experience of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, as well as simple observation, says differently. Few can forget a demonstration last year in an East Harlem school where an elderly black woman, tears streaming down her face, cradled the head of her nine-year-old grandson and lamented, as if chanting a dirge: "He don't read! He don't read! He don't read...
...cost the already strapped U.F.T. $200.-000. The union distributed handbills repeating some of the most scurrilous anti-white and anti-Semitic statements to come from the black community, "Cut out, stay out, stay off, shut up. get off our backs," reads one, "or your relatives in the Middle East will find themselves giving benefits to raise money to help you get out from the terrible weight of an enraged black community." On TV, Shanker said that his union was trying to prevent "a Nazi takeover of the schools...
There was not even much reason to cheer last week as Hungarian, Polish and Bulgarian troops, and the first Russians, began to depart. The East Germans had already gone home. But some 75,000 Soviet troops will remain stationed along a central line that virtually cuts the country in half, and 60 guns still ring Prague. The one major concession that the Soviets made in the treaty governing the "temporary" stationing of their troops in Czechoslovakia carried an ominous loophole. The status-of-forces clause in the treaty provided that Czechoslovak law should apply to occupying soldiers as well...
...indictment also charged that the pair had smuggled another East German from Czechoslovakia to Austria earlier in August...