Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little known last spring even among blacks, Austin was not the first choice of the city's black politicians. They sought William Patrick Jr., president of New Detroit, the community organization created to revive the city after the riots. Patrick would not run, so Austin became the black hope. The odds against his beating Gribbs in November are high. In the primary, Austin polled only 9% of the white vote. Detroit's population is about 40% Negro, but only an estimated 25% of the city's eligible voters are black. Gribbs will attract not only white moderates...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nixon's urban affairs adviser, believes that possibly the high point of violence has already been reached. "I would think we have passed that," he said last week. If he is right-and events going back through this summer to the Martin Luther King riots of 1968 indicate that he might be-it is an extraordinary and unexpected evolution within the black revolution. In the worst hours of the most reckless rioting, many white Americans feared that the fire next time would strike where the white man lives and works. This ugly vision of race...
...Editor" Fraser, a Scottish journalist, has struck upon a splendidly entertaining and relatively effortless way of replaying some of those military histories that have so proliferated in recent years, in this case a fine review of the Afghan Wars by British Barrister-Author Patrick Macrory called The Fierce Pawns. No satirist could have invented a scene as bizarre as Afghanistan in 1841, or one so suited to showing the military mind at its silliest...
FIRST TUESDAY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). This segment of NBC's magazine-format show features a profile of big-game Conservationist Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's son; an attempt to answer the question of Whatever Happened to Carroll Baker; plus looks at skydiving, computer dating and other features...
Sure, and when Moynahan ends a story, he ends it. But it's a pity he has to go through the formal motions of writing a novel at all. At its free-form best, Pairing Off is an Irish happening - as luckily disorganized as a good St. Patrick's Day parade...