Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting erupted among youths from Trenton's Central High, and mob violence hit Chicago's Waller and Englewood highs. An inexplicable dance-hall riot among 700 teen-agers in Lewiston, Me., was quickly quelled by police, who were conveniently on hand-the dance was sponsored by the local Police Athletic League...
...common pattern in the outbreaks. Three of the eruptions hinged partly on the impatient demand of Negro students that the schools introduce courses in Negro culture and history-something that the administrators were already planning to do. In other cases, adult agitators fanned disturbances. Philadelphia police charged the local leaders of CORE and the Black People's Unity Movement, a small group promoting "black pride," with inciting the riot there. Parents of Negro students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High sought the help of Ron Karenga, leader of the black separatist "Us" organization, in trying to dump...
...priests from 114 U.S. dioceses (out of 141) met in Chicago to form a nationwide organization to speak out on clerical affairs. A few years ago, such an organization would have been unthinkable. The new assembly, which calls itself the Federation of Priests' Councils, aims to mobilize local priests' groups in efforts to improve the quality of the clergy and speed the pace of reform in the church -and society. To show their ecumenical spirit, the priests closed their two-day meeting by singing Martin Luther's A Mighty Fortress...
Basic Change. The two settlements actually put little new pressure on copper's Big Four-Anaconda, Kennecott, Phelps Dodge and American Smelting & Refining-to come to terms with 60,000 strikers. Both agreements involve local operations and thus do not touch the strike's key issue: the 26 unions' demand for a basic change in the bargaining rules. The unions, backed by the full power of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., demand the right to bargain as a coalition within each company, and to set common expiration dates on all contracts. "This is a strike," said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President...
...best they've got, however, is not dumb men but clever monkeys, hideous primates in leather jackets who periodically catch humans in nets for laboratory experiments or to put in cages at the local zoo. Heston's companions are quickly done in, and soon he is pleading for his life before the head orangutan (Maurice Evans), who wants him gelded and then melded into the tribe of cavemen. Aided by two empathetic chimpanzees (Roddy MacDowall and Kim Hunter), Heston eventually makes his escape across forbidden territory where no monkey hand has ever set foot. There he learns...