Word: newarkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special task forces of Regular Army troops - more than 15,000 men - have been assigned as an elite service to cope with urban disruption. The riot forces will be dispatched only if the Na tional Guard - which has been undergoing special riot training since its woefully inept performances in Newark and Detroit last summer - cannot...
...Immigrants from the Commonwealth-mostly Pakistanis, Indians and West Indians-are pouring into Britain in such large numbers that Britain's white population, including the large population of Irish immigrants, is both alarmed and seething with resentment. Warned the London Daily Mail: "The horrors of the riots in Newark and Detroit may seem remote, but all the causes have already taken root here...
Those were only the latest clashes in a series that began last fall. In Newark, two Negro girls fought over a cafeteria seat at Barringer High last October, touching off two days of sporadic tray hurling and fights between Negro and white youths. Nearly 3,500 students from Philadelphia high schools cut classes one day in November for a rally at the board of education that turned into a melee, causing 22 injuries and leading to 57 arrests. Before the Christmas vacations, mass street fighting erupted among youths from Trenton's Central High, and mob violence hit Chicago...
After 45 years of publishing magazines and books, Time Inc. last week announced a move into the newspaper business. Having recently decided to buy Little, Brown & Co. as well as 300,000 shares of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Time Inc. reached an agreement to buy its first daily-the Newark Evening News. Time Inc. agreed to exchange roughly 325,000 shares of its common stock and take over a News mortgage debt of about $5,000,000, in return for all the stock of the Evening News Publishing Co. of Newark. The News Co., however, will retain ownership of Newark radio...
...News was founded by Wallace Scudder in 1883, and has always been in the hands of the same family. The only afternoon daily published in Newark, it is New Jersey's largest newspaper, with a statewide daily circulation of 278,000 and 423,000 on Sundays. Advertising revenue has risen 38% over the past seven years to more than $25 million in 1967. With an editorial staff of 254 in Newark and six regional bureaus in the state, the News started delivering some 20,000 copies of a New York edition last month...