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...those fears have not been realized. Last week, as millions of youngsters left the ghetto streets to return to school, the usual riot season more or less ended. During the summer there have been no disorders as big or bad as the holocausts that gutted Watts, Newark or Detroit in previous years. The U.S. had 286 racial disturbances from May through the end of August, but most were relatively small and short. Though practically any city could still blow, the summer of 1968 now ranks as the most tranquil since...
...channeled their energies into black-run businesses, black cultural festivals, black historical groups, black community organization-all of which have released some tensions. Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones has shifted from promoting violence to campaigning for the election of Negro candidates to fill two of the three vacancies on the Newark city council. Black Militant Ron Karenga has also become an advocate of ballot power. He worked hard and effectively to prevent rioting from breaking out in Los Angeles after King's death...
...Voice in Policy. White political, police and business chieftains have aided in other ways. Wisely, high officials in New York, Newark, Chicago, Detroit and other potentially explosive cities have begun holding regular dialogues with black militants and giving them a voice in schools, welfare, urban renewal, law enforcement and other policy matters that crucially affect Negro neighborhoods. In Detroit, which has only 328 blacks on its 4,656-man force, 40% of the cadets now in the police academy are Negroes. In several cases, black militants have been given local government jobs and other incentives to cool...
Having won nine National Basketball Association championships in the past ten years, the Boston Celtics are naturally the prime target of any team in the league. Now the Celtics have finally been taken-but not by an N.B.A. rival. The taker is P. Ballantine & Sons, the big Newark-based brewer (estimated 1967 sales: $90 million). Ballantine paid a Manhattan real estate investment company some $4,000,000 for the team...
...information about Crane and his writing, and assembles it in chronological order. The result unquestionably is the most exhaustive biography ever written about Crane-or likely to be written. Nothing is ignored: the details of his birth in 1871, the 14th child of a gentle Methodist minister in Newark, the fairly typical boyhood years in Port Jervis, N.Y., the erratic career as a reporter for New York City papers, and finally, his years as a correspondent covering the Greco-Turkish and Spanish-American wars...