Word: previously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black militants used his murder to cry, "The civil rights movement is dead!" But they had said it long before his assassination. King was dangerously close to slipping from prophet to patsy. When his previous week's march in Memphis degenerated into riotous looting, a black gang leader who organized the violence chortled: "We been making plans to tear this town up for a long time. We knew he'd turn out a crowd." For years, behind his back, King's Negro denigrators had called him "de Lawd." Lately he had heard himself publicly called an Uncle...
Whether these events will loom large in history, or will fade along with all the previous false starts towards peace, may not be known for weeks to come. Not even negotiations on the main issues of the conflict are assured, let alone a successful outcome. On the other hand, said the President, "it could lead to another positive step and another positive step and another positive step that might end this terrible...
...told, the TV coverage, thanks to past experience, was better organized than in previous times. Having learned to gauge the impact of TV's immediacy, NBC reporters on the streets avoided using the provocative word riot, and in at least two instances were told by their headquarters to breathe deeply and compose themselves before going on the air with their stories...
...burst of discovery, the U.S. record-buying public is making it up to Redding for a side he made only 21 weeks before his death, Dock of the Bay. Surprisingly, Dock of the Bay is restful and reflective, whereas previous songs, like Shake and Try a Little Tenderness, were exuberant, even ecstatic. But it is no less authentically soulful, and its ironic air of premonition is not lost on the kids, either...
Tougher for Speculators. The welcome calm was fostered both by Viet Nam peace hopes and by the previous weekend's international agreement in Stockholm on the creation of paper gold to bolster the world's monetary system. Three new restrictions imposed by the Bank of England, which regulates British financial dealings, also made trading tougher for speculators. The bank forbade sales of gold for future delivery, barred banks or gold dealers from lending foreign currency to nonresidents to finance gold buying, and even prohibited them from accepting gold as collateral for loans in foreign monies. For their part...