Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEFORE it exploded in the historic race riot of July 1967, few people outside New Jersey knew much about Newark, an old industrial city with a population of 407,000, roughly the same as Kansas City, Mo. Newark is still scarred by the riot, which took 23 lives and caused $10 million in property damage. Parts of its central core look like bombed-out Berlin after the war. Abandoned buildings with shattered windows cast their shadows over littered sidewalks and stripped, rusting autos. Springfield Avenue, the main shopping street of Newark's black ghetto, is now largely boarded...
...city's race relations probably hit bottom during the 1967 riot. The militants are now concentrating most of their energies on capturing the mayoralty in May 1970. Though they make up a majority of the population, Negroes were unable to win even one of three city council seats that fell vacant in 1968: the black population is younger than the white citizenry and does not turn out as heavily to vote. The two leading Negro mayoral possibilities are both moderates: Kenneth Gibson, a structural engineer in the city's buildings department, who ran for mayor...
They crowd and wait as though for the beginning of the fox trot. All that's missing is a bar, so that these curly-headed lanky youths (our race is as tall as ever) may blow white beer foam onto the tombs...
...already arrogant and glib despite his pale blond fragility. Kazakh, son of an Aryan mother and a Jewish father who is killed as a heroic leader of the Social Democrat uprising in 1934, is a shy, sensitive boy, but stronger and taller than Wirthof. Kazakh easily wins the foot race that follows their initial encounter; yet he is able to realize even then that Wirthof dominates him psychologically if not physically...
...build a big, bumbling jet, he said, because the Russians and the French are building them. "The United States cannot afford to be a third-rate power in this kind of project." In pragmatic economic terms, the international-competition analysis suggests that the U.S. should quit the SST race. Since the French and Russians are at least two years ahead of the American SST pace, the tardy U.S. model would probably find few buyers in the international market...