Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degree from the University of Alabama, and in 1946 he won election to the state house of representatives; in 1952 he was elected a state judge. He made his first, unsuccessful, try for the governorship in 1958. His opponent, John Patterson, had taken a harsher line on race, and Wallace learned a lesson. "They out-niggered me that time," he reportedly declared, "but they'll never do it again." They never have. Alabama today comes close to being George Wallace's personal satrapy, much as Louisiana was Huey Long's in the 1930s...
...there was ever hope for a limit to the arms race in the Middle East, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko quashed it during his visit to the U.S. He was simply uninterested. Accordingly, last week President Johnson responded to a year-old Israeli request for 50 U.S. F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers to match the growing supersonic strength of the Arab air forces. He ordered the State Department to begin negotiations with Israel about the sale of the jets-thereby making possible continued Israeli superiority...
...decision, Judge Timothy S. Hogan: 1) ordered Dobbins' admission to the union, 2) temporarily suspended union hiring-hall practices, by which jobs are dispensed "at the particular whim of the business agent," and 3) insisted on a new system of hiring based on training and experience rather than race or union membership...
...keeps the relationship between the two books vague, but the almost autistic state of mind and the prose-voice in both are nearly identical. It is the flat, emotionless tone of the survivor whose shattering experiences have set him outside the conventional boundaries of the human race. No longer capable of giving or receiving compassion, the victim-the painted bird-has survived and grown into a bird of prey that thrives on acts of voyeurism, cruelty and revenge...
Teachers also fear, and with some justification, that in some areas community control really means black control. Alarmed by anti-Semitic remarks from some ghetto leaders, the largely Jewish union fears capricious harrassment and dismissal by local boards which are more concerned with race than competence...