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...reporter-me." Sometimes employers will lower hiring standards for blacks, many of whom lack training simply because they never received much encouragement to go into journalism. This can lead to resentment on the part of qualified blacks, who feel that it casts suspicion on their own abilities. Says Lem Tucker, a Washington correspondent for NBC: "I can understand the initial skepticism. But after two years of doing good work, it makes me mad." Many black newsmen persist, however, and some have already demonstrated that they are among the best newsmen...
...Brown" on their spacecraft. But NASA officials soon decided that nick names were undignified for craft involved in a historic national effort. Word went out to put an end to name-call ing. Even official labels had to be made more solemn. On the theory that Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was too frivolous a name for the moon-landing craft, NASA gravely renamed it Lunar Mod ule, thus reducing the friendly LEM to the unpronounceable...
...Chicago's Negro West Side erupted in pillage and cataclysmic flames that left an eight-block area in a state of devastation as severe as that of Detroit's ghetto last summer-yet at first Mayor Richard Daley failed, inexplicably, to impose a curfew. In Har lem, gleeful mobs cavorted and Mayor John Lindsay, though unharmed as he walked among them, was powerless to halt the orgy. Sniping, the most feared of ghetto tactics in summers past, was rare; by week's end, riot-connected deaths in the U.S. totaled more than...
...motorcade wound slowly through the streets, two brothers, aged 24 and 22, dashed out and dumped two plastic bags full of red and green paint over the windshield and top of the President's limousine. While Australian police hauled the men away, paint-spattered Secret Service Agent Lem Johns, who was unsure of what was happening, shouted to the President's driver, "Go...go...go...!" When the car drew up at Melbourne's Government House, the Johnsons emerged undaunted and undaubed (all the windows had been closed). "Well," cracked Lyndon, "we got a colorful reception...
...only a few hours earlier. It was the first successful space link-up accomplished so soon after launch, and it simulated a vital step in the Apollo moon mission. After exploring the surface of the moon, Apollo astronauts will have to blast off in their little lunar excursion module (LEM); then, after only 11 orbits, they will have to rendezvous and dock with the moon-orbiting Apollo mother ship...