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...retrospect, the first big hint of Lausche's political life expectancy came last year when the Governor's protégé, Cleveland's mayor, Ralph Locher, was turned out by Carl Stokes, first Negro to assume command of a major American city. As Lausche's reign crumpled last week, a new dynasty was dawning about the personable Stokes. His older brother Louis, 43, became the Democratic congressional nominee in Cleveland's 21st District by topping a 14-man field, with 28,680 votes to his nearest rival's 15,110. Lou Stokes...
...television sets. In the Los Angeles district of Watts, California's most notorious Slough of Despond, the orderly rows of one-story, stucco houses reflect the sun in gay pastels, and only the weed-grown gaps between stores along the wide main streets?"instant parking lots"?hint at the volcanic mob fury that three years ago erupted out of poverty to take 34 lives and destroy $40 million worth of property...
Triple A-Plus. Only on rare occasions has Humphrey let slip the merest hint of differences with the White House. Once in a while, his old logorrheic fervor would earn Johnson's displeasure, as when in 1966 he commented on urban riots: "With rats nibbling on my children's toes, I might lead a pretty good revolt myself." He also called for a "Marshall Plan" for the cities when the White House was playing down big new spending programs. But generally he disagreed with few Administration policies. On Viet Nam, Humphrey has pressed for greater social reform, fewer grand search...
Before long, Harvard's enthusiasm for Indian education dwindled to a level which met the Indians'. Only a year after the College was built, President Chauncy began to hint that the building--empty most of the time--might be put to better use. A Harvard historian records that it was shortly being used principally "for to accomodate English scholars...
Cleveland and Chicago. Already, during the Watts uprising, there had come the first hint of King's tenuous tenure. A young looter, asked if he thought Dr. King would approve, retorted: "Martin Luther...