Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro housing, education, jobs and welfare, could feasibly be enacted by Congress. As the commission warned, there is no time to lose. Ominous harbingers of summer violence were already evident last week in several cities. Windows were smashed, and a Negro boy was shot to death by police in Omaha when a speaking appearance by Alabama's George Wallace touched off two nights of disturbances. A strike by garbage collectors in Memphis escalated into scattered disturbances and threats of rioting. And a proposed riot-control training exercise by Tennessee National Guardsmen in the state's four major cities...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A cougar and her three cubs migrate from high in the Rocky Mountains to a lower valley where they will spend the winter...
...short scene with Stokely Carmichael, whose cool is chilling as he smilingly maintains that mankind's only hope is for the colored races to smite the white devils like avenging angels. Later, a narrator weeps for Viet Nam-based U.S. soldiers, mostly of "Calvinistic background and Omaha upbringing," whose first sexual encounters are "almost certainly" homosexual in the fag bars of Saigon. (The U.S. has plenty of problems in Saigon, but the fag bar is not one of them...
...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). In "Four Days to Omaha," a young man sets out to learn about his dead soldier-father by retracing his foot steps from London to an Omaha Beach cemetery in Normandy...
Slowed by extreme cold and winter storms, the recovery team can only look forward to months of uncomfortable living and working on the desolate expanse of ice. Asked by his wife when he would return from Greenland, Major General Hunziker replied: "Probably not before the roses bloom in Omaha...