Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrust and counterthrust took place at one of a series of group-therapy sessions designed to promote understanding between Houston's police and Negroes. The six-week programs have been going on since last September. On each of six consecutive Fri days, as many as 200 policemen, divided into groups of 12 to 15, meet with equal numbers of citizens-both black and white-to thrash out differences. The fourth batch is now attending the three-hour sessions, each of which is guided by a trained psychologist...
Prone to Violence. Sponsored by Houston businessmen who call themselves Community Effort, Inc., the program is run by a Negro, Dr. Melvin Sikes, a clinical psychologist at the city's Veterans Administration Hospital. The sessions begin with an intensive examination of the attitudes the police and the community groups have about themselves and each other. Distrust is mutual -and obvious-at the start. "The Negro is lazy and uncooperative." "He has no self-respect." "He's immoral, has no regard for life or property," say the police. "Police are cold, mechanical, rude," say the citizens. "They use foul...
...Houston 5 Pittsburgh...
...Olympic Committee named its twelve man basketball team yesterday. Collegians picked were Jo Jo White of Kansas, Ken Spain of Houston, Bill Hosket of Ohio State, and Charles Scott of North Carolina. No player on the All-American first team was chosen. Both Calvin Murphy and Pete Maravich, the nation's leading scorers were cut from the squad. Sophomores Dan Issel of Kentucky and Rick Mount of Purdue were chosen as alternates. The rest of the team consists of NAIA, Junior College, AAU, and Armed Service All-Stars...
...Philadelphia, Houston, New York--Who cares why? It's not even fun to watch the Mets play any more...