Word: newarkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gutsy Growls. Like most of her blues mates, Dionne was raised in the "church groove," learned her soulful style when she sang in the New Hope Baptist Church of Newark, N.J. She has been spreading the faith ever since. During a recent tour of the East Coast, she attended services at the New Hope church, then drove her Mercedes into Manhattan to conduct her own kind of revival meeting at the Copacabana. Her songbook is a primer course in variety and good taste. Tall and wickedly curvy in a snug, deep-dish gown, she swoops down into gutsy little growls...
...beginning of a third stage in the development of the New Left organization. At the beginning, following its break with the parent League for Industrial Democracy. SDS stressed community organizing among people excluded from the system; mainly Negroes and poor whites. Members opened a Community Union Project in Newark, financed by the United Auto Workers, and built similar Economic Research and Action Projects (ERAP) in other cities. Since 1965, however, SDS has concentrated almost entirely on students, and its main issues have been the war in Vietnam, the draft and "student power." During this second stage, it has endeavored, primarily...
With Wally and Tom in one car and the inspectors following, the trail led through Manhattan's afternoon rush-hour snarl, through the Lincoln Tunnel (no radio reception there), down the New Jersey Turnpike to Newark Airport. All evening and most of the night, the tailing went on, from scruffy diners to B-girl bars, across Hackensack Meadows on Fish House Road, around rail-truck terminals. In the long hide-and-seek, the cars got separated, and the chief feared for Wally's life. But Wally played his part well. He later emerged with a carton of counterfeit...
FRANK G. Roux Newark...
...Movement, but his stature has faded along with the issue. The more stable heroes in the New Left's pantheon are Staughton Lynd, 38, a pacifist and professor of American history at Yale between speaking engagements, and Tom Hayden, 27, an S.D.S. founder who now heads the independent Newark Community Union Project, a small but energetic program to help the poor. Both attracted a lot of attention a year ago when they went on a self-appointed peace mission to Hanoi. While the New Left scorns conventional politics, it has set up an ambitiously titled National Conference...