Word: hopefull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were disturbing Labor Day incidents last week in Hartford, Conn., Camden, N.J., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In the present calm context, they seem somehow atavistic-only smaller recurrences in lesser cities of the convulsions that racked major metropolises much earlier. The whites and blacks of minor urban centers are...
∙ JOBS AND POLITICAL POWER have become the goal. "There is a more serious concentration now on the hard issues of economics and politics" says Vernon Jordan, director of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project. Jordan finds it hopeful that blacks have elected mayors in Fayette, Miss...
In the southern Sudan, the long-awaited rains have left the countryside carpeted in a lush green. The valley of the rain-swollen Upper Nile is alive with gazelles, dik-dik and brightly plumaged birds, and the elephant grass is five feet high. Over the past several years, that luxuriant...
To most New Yorkers, the very thought of a Met victory was an alien concept. "In those days," recalls Leftfielder Cleon Jones, "people never even asked if we had won. Most of the time it would have been a silly question." But the fans went on cheering, ever hopeful that...
As if in a nightmare, the dreadful events of last summer seemed to be recurring. Across the bridges of the Vltava River, 68 tanks rumbled noisily into Prague. The acrid smell of tear gas hung over Wenceslas Square, where troopers wielding submachine guns faced angry demonstrators. Even the cries of...