Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antonio Marchini-Camis of the Legislative Service, EURATOM; Wouter Tims, of the Central Planning Bureau, The Hague; and Arne Bonde, Editor of Verdens Gang in Oslo, will discuss problems of the Common Market and related topics...
...Chicago's Lawndale district on the west side of the city, the dark, slum-speckled streets breed a tale of terror. One night six Negro boys jumped out of the dark and lashed a 69-year-old white man with bicycle chains. Another gang waylaid a 12-year-old white boy in a schoolyard and bludgeoned him. Four white men dragged a Negro from his car, beat and robbed him, then for good measure smashed the car against a pole...
...which has already logged more incidents this year than in all of 1960, is not alone among Northern cities with its growing tension. Detroit is edgily watching interracial efforts to integrate a suburban swimming pool. And in New York one humid night last week, 60 silent members of a gang that calls itself the Harlem Lords marched across a Harlem River bridge for a rumble in The Bronx. Armed with linoleum knives, lengths of pipe and baling hooks, they warmed up by attacking 20 pedestrians. They were finally stopped by two policemen who held them back with drawn pistols until...
Racists & Razors. The decision to maintain standards has been a long uphill fight. Soon after integration, white and Negro students began living by gangland rule. Bullies of both races extorted nickels and dimes from younger students; when arguments started, the races closed ranks. To prevent gang fights, teachers patrolled the lavatories, frisked pupils for razors, switchblades, and beer can openers with honed edges. Though officials hushed up the mess for three years, the lid blew off in 1958, when young Negro toughs beat up two white teachers. White students fled the school, and few dreamed that it would ever...
Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A cattle roundup on the biggest ranch in North America, the 1,000,000-acre Gang Ranch near Clinton...