Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fortas, like the Smothers brothers, was a victim of the Establishment. Free and constructive speech, once valued as a privileged medium of criticism, is fast becoming a farcical political device of the haves. With the possibility of four liberal seats being vacated soon, the conservatives are chuckling. God help us if another Taft Era is the result...
Upcoming municipal elections should help to prevent violence in some cities, particularly where blacks hold or seek high office. Newark Negroes, sensing an opportunity to gain control of the city government in next May's elections, have reason for restraint; they wish to do nothing to help Anthony Imperiale, who bases his candidacy on white fear of the Negroes. Blacks in Cleveland are likely to reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city...
...slowing down the economy in a manner acceptable to all factions in the country is narrowing to one prospect: a Viet Nam settlement. He seems willing to gamble, if Congress will allow him, that the U.S. war effort can be reduced by a sufficient degree and soon enough to help the domestic front...
...sweeps through ghetto streets, warning residents to obey the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by Mayor Hugh Addonizio. The disorder abated quickly, without causing sympathy tremors in other New Jersey cities. In San Francisco, black clergymen, labor officials and professional people went out into the neighborhoods to help cool rising tempers following a police raid on Black Panther headquarters...
...really a pleasure to watch Ince play. Even someone who knows less about lacrosse than I do couldn't help but notice his infinite polish. If you will excuse the sentimentality, it seems appropriate that Ince has the same number as Mickey Mantle did. But Harvard probably won't retire the number 7 as the Yankees will. And Ince's dedication is evident on the lacrosse field as well as on a squash court. One day when I went down to practice, everyone had gone in except for three guys. One of them was Ince...