Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short run, the murder in Memphis will probably increase the power of the militants. "The way things are today," observes Floyd McKissick, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, "not even Christ could come back and preach nonviolence...
...Administration's accomplishments, he must overcome the me-too image if he is to attract some of the disenchanted. Further, Humphrey will be a prisoner of events during the coming months. There are primary elections he cannot enter, peace negotiations that may or may not be successful, racial unrest that may subside or explode again...
...month when gangs of rock-throwing Negro toughs disrupted several United Bahamian rallies. But in the end, Pindling's record was the big issue, and voters had to agree that the chunky, soft-spoken moderate was running the country pretty well. Despite fears that Pindling would stir up racial tensions and frighten business away, the islands have remained calm, and both investment and tourism are on the in crease. The islands' three casinos are packed every night and are thriving despite a $1,000,000 tax that Pindling levied on each gambling house last year...
...arrest rate for murder is ten times that among whites, most of the violent crimes committed by Negroes are against other Negroes. Of 172 Washington, D.C., murders in a recent two-year period, for example, only twelve were interracial. Yet fear that Negro riots are leading to some ghastly racial holocaust is fueling a vast, scandalously uncontrolled traffic in firearms that has equipped one-half of U.S. homes with 50 million guns, largely for "self-defense." All this is rationalized by virtue of the Second Amendment "right of the people to keep and bear arms." In fact, the right clearly...
...hits-seven plays and two films -and it was no surprise when he was voted best director. Yet the movie he won it for-The Graduate-received not one other award. The best picture was In the Heat of the Night, whose fine if somewhat melodramatic treat ment of racial conflict seemed stirringly topical (the selection, of course, was made long before the King assassination); with five Oscars it was the most honored film of the year. One of the weakest choices involved the year's other major race picture, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; William Rose...