Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black ghettos. Angelenos own 3,000,000 cars. But 31% of the black families don't have a car, so how can they get to work? "Then," says King, "there is housing. There are other problems too. The city's going to have to make some substantial moves fast before it decays. The colonies?that's what they are, colonies?are on the threshold of exploding...
...through the broken, crumbling barrios of East Los Angeles and tells me: "We have a new nationalism now. There is no more Tio Taco, which is our version of Uncle Tom. We may be a few years behind the blacks in our militance, but we are getting there very fast...
...Palm Springs. On Richardson Bay at Sausalito, houseboaters regularly pollute the waters with garbage and feces. Efforts of developers to commercialize areas of Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California are only now being resisted, but the conservationists have not won that battle yet. Abalone and kelp fishermen are fast destroying their chief competitors, the sea otters ?who now number only 400 along the entire California coastline. The brown pelican is virtually extinct, a victim of pesticides...
Gray explained at the press conference that police were ordered to march with their clubs held fast across their chests and not to swing them needlessly...
...pick Yale, or I could pick Dartmouth. Let's look at the facts for lack of anything better to do. The Indian's rushing average is almost the highest in the nation. But Yale is one of the most effective teams against the rush. Yale's offense is coming fast, but getting through the Big Green offense is no easy task. I think Dartmouth will have to show a little better passing attack than it did against Harvard, and if it does, the Elis could really get stung. But they're playing in the Yale Bowl, where, according...