Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slapped "Anti-Panic Squad" signs on their cars and drove through the streets shouting for calm. Unpersuaded, civilians scooped up their children and whatever possessions they could carry and-on foot, by bicycle or riding in ancient automobiles or mammy wagons-swarmed into the main road leading to the northern town of Owerri, 45 miles away. Within a few hours after the shelling began, traffic was backed up 15 miles...
...same skepticism is in junior Robert L. Hall's article, "SNCC's Call to North Black Students," an account and criticism of last March's New England Regional Black Student Conference, "Black Power and the Talented 10 Per Cent." That conference was a first formal aggravation of the northern black student's conscience, which had rested easier during the fifties and early sixties while racism was being battled mostly in the south. At last spring's conference, Hall reports, James Forman criticized black students at Northern prestige schools, told them: "You're not the talented 10 per cent--the talented...
Against the Framework. S.D.S. concentrated at first on civil rights issues. It organized Northern ghetto dwellers in such projects as Chicago's Jobs Or Income-Now (JOIN) and fought to get Mississippi's "Freedom delegation" seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention. The Viet Nam war, however, led to a change of tactics. By 1966, S.D.S. had broken with the L.I.D. and decided against working within the existing political framework. Since then, the group has been trying to be what National Secretary Michael Spiegel, 21, a onetime Harvard student, calls "an independent radical force...
...inflammatory analgesic on Sunday, 144 hours before the race. The drug was actually administered by a veterinarian, Dr. Alex Harthill, who turns out to be something of a controversial figure. Although he is known as "the Derby Vet" for treating such former winners of the race as Carry Back, Northern Dancer and Lucky Debonair, Harthill has twice been implicated in drugging scandals. In 1954, he was suspended "indefinitely" (later reduced to 60 days) by stewards at Chicago's Washington Park for administering a stimulant to a horse that subsequently won a $25,000 stakes race...
Grandma's Duster. What she did instead was speculate and compare her experiences with experiences in her past. "Jouncing along a highway deeply pitted by pellets from cluster bombs made me think of my childhood: bumpy trips in northern Minnesota; Grandma in a motoring hat and duster; and how each time we struck a pothole her immense white head, preceded by the hat, would bounce up and hit the car's canvas top." And "Meos, Muongs and Thais, in the mountains of the wild west, though they do not wear feathers, recall American Indians...