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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midnight, Hubert G. Locke, a Negro who is administrative assistant to the police commissioner, left his desk at headquarters and climbed to the roof for a look at Detroit. When he saw it, he wept. Beneath him, whole sections of the nation's fifth largest city lay in charred, smoking ruins. From Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue six miles to the east, tongues of flame licked at the night sky, illuminating the angular skeletons of gutted homes, shops, supermarkets. Looters and arsonists danced in the eerie shadows, stripping a store clean, then setting it to the torch. Mourned...
There was little debate on the largest public-works bill since 1963, and less opposition. Small wonder. Every state will get a piece of the action-a dam, a federal office building, a harbor-improvement project or some other goody that a Congressman can mention to his constituents. "Somebody ought to oppose the pork barrel," cried New York Republican Theodore Kupferman. Aside from Kupferman, whose Manhattan silk-stocking district got nothing...
...Trance. The movement, now worldwide, burgeoned to more than 12 million faithful belonging to a host of evangelical denominations, the largest of which is the Assemblies of God (U.S. membership: 572,000). Traditionally strong in the rural South, Pentecostalism has made notable recent gains among urban Negroes and Puer to Ricans, and has even taken root on U.S. college campuses. For those who have received the gift of speaking in tongues, it can be an ecstatic occurrence. Glossolalia usually happens at the climax of a Pentecostal service, when the revivalist "lays on hands"-places his hand on the head...
...total number of papers to 171. Many are making a profit. There are only two dailies: the aggressive Chicago Defender (circ. 32,000) and the conservative Atlanta Daily World (circ. 20,000). The New York Amsterdam News (72,400) and Detroit's Michigan Chronicle (48,300) are the largest weeklies and among the best...
...profit prospects of some of the D.J. giants in currently or recently troubled fields: steel (U.S. and Bethlehem Steel), autos (General Motors and Chrysler), oils (Texaco, Standard of California and Jersey Standard), chemicals (Du Pont, Union Carbide and Allied Chemical) and, of course, A.T. & T., the world's largest corporation. Because all the Dow industrials have large numbers of shares outstanding, it takes substantial sums from investors to push their prices up more than a mite. Many Wall Street analysts thus took last week's recovery as a signal of renewed confidence by big institutional investors in basic...