Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, the President picked up from his desk a copy of a Law Day speech delivered by oldtime New Dealer Thurman Arnold, 75, at Indiana's Valparaiso University Law School. A lawyer who helped Owen Lattimore and a number of low-level Government employees who came under attack during the McCarthy era, Arnold has impeccable credentials as a defender of dissent. Yet his speech was a blistering denunciation of "alienated intellectuals" who take the position that "dissent deserves special consideration, immunity from criticism and the right to shout down persons who disagree with them." Arnold recalled that Columnist Walter...
...Hatcher were white, he would be certain of victory; the machine has made Indiana's second biggest city a Democratic fiefdom for more than 50 years. As a Negro, he must campaign on ability and personality. He has both, and already has firm plans to wipe out the prostitution and gambling that have made "Steel City U.S.A."-as its boosters like to call it-synonymous with vice in a large section of the Midwest. "I hope to give the people of Gary an administration of which they can be proud," Hatcher says without a trace of braggadocio...
...follow statewide Daylight Time-unless the respective legislatures enact exempting laws. Last week as the hour struck to turn the clocks ahead one hour, the chaos was less, but compliance was far from perfect. Forty-five states are now keeping D.S.T.; still out of step are Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan...
...sullen spring skies over four Midwestern states last week came a succession of killer tornadoes. The twist ers hit Illinois, Missouri, Michigan and Indiana. Scattering cars and buses like playthings, reducing office buildings and whole residential sections to rubble, the tornadoes' lash took more than 50 lives, injured 1,500, and destroyed up to $50 million worth of property...
Women's Strike for Peace was there in strength, toting shopping bags with anti-Vietnam slogans. A whole truckload of small children sang folk songs under the slogan "Children are not for Burning." Of course, there were students--straight ones, too--from Washington University in St. Louis, from Indiana to Howard. One section of the parade was reserved for a thousand labor representatives...