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Waiting Game. He told his mostly conservative listeners what they wanted to hear. "The Great Society," he said in Texas, "is not the wave of the future but the end of an era, a dismal rehash of the 1930s." Welfare is "a colossal and complete failure," he said in Des...
In Des Moines, a strike by municipal employees filled the city with the stench of uncollected garbage and untended sewers. In New York, Detroit and other scattered spots around the nation, teachers picketed their own schools, forcing hundreds of thousands of children to play hooky (see EDUCATION). Forty-two thousand...
Fifteen miles to the southwest, a Negro mob in Plainfield, N.J., surrounded a white policeman and stomped him to death. Trouble erupted in nearby Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Jersey City and Englewood. Halfway across the nation, gangs of young Negroes in Cairo, Ill., hurled fire bombs and sniped sporadically for two...
The ICC noted that the ailing Great Western's "limited traffic volume and capital" has prevented it from modernizing. By absorbing the line into the healthier North Western, that situation should be cured. The resulting line, retaining the name Chicago and North Western, would have 12,000 miles of...
Manhattan's Whitney Museum occasionally displays a Dickensian sense of satire. It picked Ladies' Day last week to unveil as its third attraction, as unsettling a set of drawings as any museum has shown in years. The 30 drawings were the handiwork of Iowa's mordant Mauricio...