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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro city controller, highest appointive office ever held by a Negro in Detroit. In 1963, 20 years to the day after the Detroit race riot that cost 34 lives, the mayor led a Freedom March of 150,000 Negroes and whites down Woodward Ave., the city's main thoroughfare...
...main purposes of the service are to furnish emergency and diagnostic care to those who desire it, to aid in the resolution of crisis situations based on emotional disturbances that may arise anywhere in the University, to furnish brief psycho-therapy to those who may readily aurmount their difficulties with timely help, and to aid those in need of long term treatment to find a suitable therapist. Many students who need extended treatment and cannot obtain it else where are treated in the Department to the extent that available time permits...
...throughout the U.S. and in Austria, Australia, Sweden, West Germany, Switzerland and England. Father Divine's own abode, Woodmont, was the gift of a wealthy white disciple called John De Voute: it consisted of a 32-room mansion set on a 73-acre estate along Philadelphia's Main Line. He seldom rode in anything but a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce, dressed in $500 silk suits and usually wore a fortune in gem-encrusted rings. Yet he insisted that he owned not a jot or a tittle of his empire. And legally, he was penniless when he died. Said...
...wanted to gobble up India, he said, the thrust would come through the Northeast Frontier and Burma. Anyway, Ayub demanded, what possible use to China would it be to take on the care and feeding of 480 million undernourished Indians? Washington flatly disagreed, insisting that Red China was the main enemy of both India and Pakistan. Ayub Khan had already made an effort to test this theory by offering in 1959 to join Nehru in a pact for the mutual defense of the subcontinent. Cracked Nehru, "Defense against whom?" and turned down the treaty...
...will down tools at the merest hint of any slight or insult. It will jealously defend a host of obsolete prerogatives and work practices that are the despair of man agement efforts at efficiency-and often of labor union leaders themselves. This year alone, Britain's auto industry, main stay of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's export push to bolster the sickly pound, has already been hit by 109 separate strikes equaling 645,000 lost work days- nearly every one an unauthorized, wildcat strike...