Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the incident the Negro community has made both restitutions and resolutions to the Boruff family. Entertainer James Brown, owner of local radio station WJBE gave $1000 toward a trust fund for the Boruff children. The college's alumni gave $5000 that would have gone for books for the school's library. The president has announced that the Boruff children will be allowed to attend Knoxville College free...
...that often lead to riots?a report that a pregnant Negro woman had been beaten by police helped precipitate the 1965 uprising ?Los Angeles, like other cities, has set up rumor-control centers. If an inflammatory incident occurs, police immediately tell their side of the story to the local rumor-control officer. He calls four friends and each of them calls four more; the chain continues until a large part of the community knows that there are at least two sides to the story. "It's very loose-knit," admits Reddin, "but it gets the word...
...Local programs are hobbled by a congressional cutback in federal funds. Last week, reacting violently to a severe trimming of a New York City job program that last summer employed 23,000 teenagers, some 1,500 youths descended upon Mayor John Lindsay's City Hall office in protest. In a three-hour near-riot, they smashed car windows and shouted some new slogans, including "Earn or burn" and "Sock it to my pocket." Lindsay denounced the ruckus as "disgraceful," then announced that the city would ante up some $5,000,000 that had been previously earmarked for the program...
...inhabitants, and because many young West Berliners are moving to West Germany for better jobs, the city's population is growing disturbingly old. More than 20% of West Berlin's residents are now 65 or older (v. 12½% in West Germany). According to one macabre local joke, undertaking is the city's only booming business; yet even that is not free from problems. Because of a shortage of cemetery space and gravediggers, almost half the city's dead are now cremated-with the result that the city's two crematoriums have become overburdened...
...drive for enlightenment was momentarily interrupted when he incautiously crossed back into China and was promptly clapped into jail by the local warlord. Often chained and sometimes yoked, he languished there for 15 months until his colleagues wangled his release. He seized the chance to write 100 poems in classical Chinese, including one verse that compared man to a kernel of rice polished white and hard by the pestle...