Word: page
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Folded into all 1,300,000 copies of an issue of the United Auto Workers' weekly tabloid Solidarity last month was a provocative four-page insert calculated to catch the eye of each of its estimated 5,000,000 readers. Its cover page was alive with a drawing of a sheet-hooded, club-carrying Ku Klux Klanner standing menacingly next to the Statue of Liberty. Caption: WHICH Do You CHOOSE? LIBERTY or BIGOTRY. Printed inside was the full text of the rousing speech by U.A.W.-endorsed Jack Kennedy to Protestant ministers in Houston...
...summer day in 1959 eight teenagers were painting the fence around a public building in Cambridge. The Cambridge Chronicle covered the event, headlining its page-one article "New Teen-age Group Seeks Jobs to Build a Better City." What the newspaper did not tell, however, was that one of the civic-minded fence painters was head of the "Monarchs," a local street-gang, and that all eight of the group had long criminal records. Six months earlier local social workers had labeled them "unreachable cases" and abandoned attempts at their rehabilitation...
Please, can we have the goodies on the front page next week, i.e., "the West Side Scouts" (or are they cubs...
...high school." he comments dryly, ''unless they can read at least at the sixth-grade level ... To my mind, the minimum goal for almost all pupils at the end of grade 9 is that these future voters should be able to read with comprehension the front page of a newspaper at a rate of about 200 words a minute...
...front pages of the country's various (if not varied) newspapers have for some time seemed strange, with photographs showing unfamiliar men peering out from behind desks at the United Nations. But if something seemed to be missing, the time for reassurance has arrived; Charlie Van Doren's sweating brow is back in its old spot on page...