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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS, by Richard Hofstadter. A graceful and perceptive study of three men-Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V. L. Parrington-who have most shaped America's conception of its past...
...cover artists often find themselves spending long hours, even days, devising a plan of attack, a theme that will give some added insight to their work. Romare Bearden, 54, had no such problem. Although he was born in Charlotte, N.C., he has lived in Manhattan most of the past 50 years, and he has strong feelings about the expanding troubles of his adopted city. After discussing his first cover assignment with TIME'S editors on the 25th floor of the TIME and LIFE Building in Manhattan, Bearden happened to look out of the window just before he left...
...rest of the nation can only hope that some patterns at least will not cross the Hudson. The sad truth is that for most of its millions, New York is an increasingly unfavorable habitat. Within the past two to three years, rents on noncontrolled apartments have risen as much as 100%-with hikes of 40% and 50% common. Still, 800,000 units, a quarter of the city's dwellings, are listed as substandard. Replacing them would be a task equal to rebuilding two-thirds of blitz-shattered London, and several of the impoverished ghettos are as big as medium...
Many Negro students would probably be better off not even attending the typical New York school. A splendid tool in assimilating and liberating past generations of immigrants, the city school today seems incapable of helping the ghetto children. Each year they fall farther behind. In one Manhattan school, 47% of the second grade are below the national reading norm; in the third grade, 52% of the children were behind, while 72% of the fourth grade lagged. The notion is often advanced that black parents do not care. The experience of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, as well as simple observation, says differently...
Gene Warner iced the game midway through the third period with his tip-in. The forward line of Marchese, Vaughan, and Warner swept past the Bruin defenders and stuffed the ball into the net for the third Crimson score...