Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their own tract of land (Blackistan? Negronia?) to what a writer in Manhattan's Vil lage Voice calls "the copulative approach," aimed at complete elimination of racial differences through intermarriage (though if Brazil and the Philippines are any measure, subtle new discriminations would arise based on how much cafe one inherited and how much laif). Harlem Black Nationalist James Lawson even demands "reparations" amounting to $7,000 for every black person in America...
...Johnson, and Young presently holds seats on five presidentially appointed panels, has served on four others now disbanded. Nor is his influence purely temporal. After a 15-minute audience with Pope Paul last June, he met with the Vatican Cabinet for four hours to promote a papal encyclical on racial justice. The Vatican is now considering the question...
...Consumer uncertainty" is the reason for the slump, says Zenith Radio Corp.'s President Joseph S. Wright. Tight money and the threat of increased income tax are listed by others. Even fear of racial riots is a factor. "People aren't coming out at night to shop," says the owner of Roxy Electric Center, a retailer in Philadelphia. The continuing high cost of color is undoubtedly the biggest reason. As a sort of reverse proof of this, Philco-Ford, an exception to the general trend, offered a color set for $299, saw first-half sales increase 65% over...
Watts, 1965, was the precursor and model for the race riots of 1967. In the sunny, sullen ghetto on Los Angeles' southeast side, all the elements of racial violence were present: rat-ridden housing, usurious white shopkeepers, broken black families, humiliating welfare-office routines, tough cops, kids with a yen to loot and lash out, and the random spark of a clumsy arrest. In this meticulously researched reconstruction, Robert Conot, 38, a Los Angeles newspaperman and novelist, shows how all those elements combined to produce six days of madness...
...education School's Conference on Collective Negotiations in Public Education, after exploring the role of negotiations in settling racial imbalance problems, concentrated yesterday the handling of teachers' grievances...