Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political realist, Moynihan realizes that genuine integration in many Northern schools is a long way off. That realization is reflected in the U.S. Office of Education's Coleman Report. "The report shows that in educational achievement, mixing helps the lower class, but does not help the middle class," notes Moynihan. "If we are going to persuade these [white, middleclass] parents to act differently, we will have to give them a powerful incentive." Like most sociologists, Moynihan feels that young Negro boys suffer from overexposure to women-in schools as well as fatherless homes. A firm be liever in military...
...Paul Ylvisaker, 45, New Jersey's commissioner of community affairs, was busy last week trying to repair the damage wrought by the Newark and Plainfield riots-and ran into jeers of "Communist!" and "Nigger lover!" from some Northern rednecks when he restrained National Guardsmen from tearing apart one neighborhood in a search for arms. As a Ford Foundation director for twelve years, he distributed more than $200 million to city and state governments. Now, on the other end, he is attempting to show that states can play a vital role in uniting cities and suburbs. To take care...
With Marshall's nomination up for Senate confirmation, a few Southern members of the Judiciary Committee were having fun working him over. To be sure, Marshall has more disinterested critics-including some Northern lawyers and judges who find him delightful company but feel his performance as a federal appeals judge and as Solicitor General fell short of brilliance...
...week formed civil defense groups in besieged Biafra, the secessionist Nigerian state that is under attack from federal forces. Largely Ibo tribesmen, they joined together to resist an invading army that was made up mainly of the rival Hausa tribe, whose members last year slaughtered thousands of Ibos in Northern Nigeria. The Biafran volunteers searched automobiles at roadblocks, practiced grenade throwing and ambushing. At a Port Harcourt automotive assembly plant, Biafran engineers rolled out their first homemade tanks-trucks plated with armor. Mechanics in the railroad repair shop at Enugu, Biafra's capital, were busy making bombs for Biafra...
...their astonishment, Northern doctors have lately discovered that eating laundry starch is all the rage among Negro women-especially pregnant women-in many Northern-city slums. At D.C. General Hospital, Chief Obstetrician Dr. Earnest Lowe estimates that up to one-fourth of his patients are starch addicts. At Los Angeles County Hospital, three or four patients a week are diagnosed as having anemia apparently caused by starch binges...