Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black-white and black-black relationships. If the characters of Playwright Charles Gordone are not quite solidly realized, their sentiments most emphatically are. Gordone is too honest an author to lie about a bright, brotherly tomorrow just over the horizon, but in thunder and in laughter he tells the racial truth of today...
...agree with my party leader, Hubert Humphrey, that Howard Lee's victory over me in being elected mayor of the town of Chapel Hill is "a new breakthrough in Southern politics" [May 16]. For all of my adult life I have worked for the elimination of racial discrimination in this community, and I welcome the climate that has made it possible for a Negro to be elected to this town's highest office...
...Burger has known Nixon for 21 years, he has seen the President only three times in the past 13 years?the third time only three minutes before they walked into the East Room last week. While he is generally of the conservative school, he is moderate enough, particularly on racial issues, not to offend most liberals too greatly. Finally, as Nixon pointedly noted?his mind obviously on the financial dealings that forced Fortas to resign a fortnight ago ?Burger has shown "unquestioned integrity throughout his private and public life...
Causes for concern persist, of course. Police in Chicago worry about a continuation of the snipings and gang shoot-outs that have claimed 29 lives since the beginning of the year. Authorities in New York fear that racial turmoil centered in the schools may spill into the community at large this summer. Pittsburgh police are alert for guerrilla warfare in integrated mill neighborhoods. Despite these threats, despite the knowledge that a single unexpected incident can turn hope to ashes-literally-the dominant mood is that this year the cities are not for burning...
...tensions eased late in the week, curfews were lifted long enough to allow householders to go out and buy food. The fires burned on, however, and there were still occasional racial clashes. For some time to come, Malaysia would be a bitterly divided society. Already many Chinese have given up hope: one senior government official spoke of abandoning everything in Kuala Lumpur and returning to his native Singapore. There was no doubt that if many others followed his example, severe damage to Malaysia's once-prospering economy would result. Beyond that was the question of whether the wounds opened...