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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last people will get so accustomed to the sight of the human body undraped that they will no longer spend their time and money just to see it. Soon movies, magazines, plays, etc., will have to come up with some other gimmick to attain the attention of the public and the dollar. Who knows? Maybe someone will even rediscover the use of thought and talent...
...Chicago's 3,585,000 population, 1,136,000 are Negroes. Although blacks constitute 34% of the city's 23,000 teachers, they are heavily concentrated in its 255 predominantly Negro schools. Of the more than 600 public schools, only 240 have integrated faculties, 214 have no black teachers at all, 12 have only black teachers. In Chicago's white working-class District 1, where black students make up 9.2% of the high school enrollment, black teachers account for only 1.4% of the faculty. In the Austin section, District 4, where Poles and Irish are gradually being...
...with the prospect of cutting faculty strength by 7,000 teachers and reducing services because of the city's inability to meet the cost of a Daley-dictated contract. Now he must also contend with an obdurate union, whose president, John Desmond, has custom, state law and the public on his side and has vowed to defend the seniority system in court...
Flags waved, ticker tape showered down on the troopers, and pretty girls pressed red roses into the men's hands. At the end of the parade route, near the Seattle Public Library, a group of antiwar protesters made V signs of peace and chanted: "Bring 'em all back!" For some of the soldiers, it was the first face-to-face contact with peace demonstrators. "It really made the men mad," said Sergeant Rick Spellman. "You read about it, but you have no idea of what it's really like until...
...normal individuals by referring to experiments which have shown that normal American college students will apply lethal doses of electric shock to human subjects if they are told to do so by their instructors. He also added that 80 per cent of the pornographic material enjoyed by the general public is sado-masochistic in nature...