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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...washing machines, 48% own cars, and 52% own television sets. In the Los Angeles district of Watts, California's most notorious Slough of Despond, the orderly rows of one-story, stucco houses reflect the sun in gay pastels, and only the weed-grown gaps between stores along the wide main streets?"instant parking lots"?hint at the volcanic mob fury that three years ago erupted out of poverty to take 34 lives and destroy $40 million worth of property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A NATION WITHIN A NATION | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...head of the Columbia student strike, Rudd was clearly trying to shut down the university completely. He led midday rallies at Low Library, threatened to defy university regulations by organizing another demonstration inside a campus building, staged a confrontation with New York City police outside the university's main gate in order to challenge the ban against outsiders on campus. On cue, some 1,000 demonstrators gathered at Broadway and 116th Street. But there was no repetition of the bloody clashes that had marked the previous week's events. Police shrugged off the student taunts, and within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Toward Reform at Columbia | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...week's end the main hope for restoring peace at Columbia rested with the faculty-and with the majority of students who, while appalled by the police raid and desirous of change, were beginning to doubt whether they really wanted to take over the university after all. Quite clearly, the university was due for "restructuring"-Columbia's word of the week-although even the faculty committee responsible for recommending changes was not sure how. As Philosophy Lecturer Vincent E. Smith told a class last week: "You can't order a reformation Sunday and expect to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Toward Reform at Columbia | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...equally known as the impartial arbitrator of the city's fractious garment industry from 1935 to 1940, and from 1947 until his death; of a heart attack; in Biarritz, France. Though Rosenblatt represented such contestants as Stavros Niarchos and Alfred Vanderbilt in divorce suits, family peace was his main concern-and it was nowhere more evident than in the garment district, where his quiet good sense settled many strikes and staved off many others. Spain, where he maintained a home was his second country; in 1966, he and his wife were honored with the Order of Isabel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 17, 1968 | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...were soon briefed on the city's more relevant distinctions. Indianapolis is the site of the American Legion's National Headquarters; the home of the John Birch Society; and a few weeks earlier the Ku Klux Klan had received a permit for a full-dress parade down the main street. Not quite the peace candidate's territory...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Crusade Hits Indiana, Which Is Not The Promised Land | 5/15/1968 | See Source »

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