Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spurred largely by fears of racial violence, Americans are engaged in a manic internal arms race. "There are more guns in Los Angeles," said a Negro leader, "than in Saigon"?at least 3,000,000. In Massachusetts, 1,100 gun dealers last year sold enough arms to equip an army of 56,000. Chicago's Blackstone Rangers, a 1,000-member black gang, are said to have 1,200 handguns among them...
Money & Fun. Next to come is the California Exposition, a permanent, year-round state fair just five minutes from Sacramento. Opening on July 1, it will feature a vast amusement park, an exhibition center, a race track and artificial lakes. The $20 million project, which is designed for the enjoyment of all the family, covers 630 acres. Estimates are that in the next twelve years the Exposition will draw 50 million people, gross some $330 million for the state-and in the process create a sizable boom for Sacramento...
Flaws v. Foreign. For next season, Papp has scheduled two plays by off-Broadway Negro Playwright Adrienne Kennedy, and has commissioned Negro Actor Ossie Davis and Composer Gait MacDermot to do a contemporary musical on the race question. "I also have," says Papp, "an adaptation of Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. But what I'm really looking for is American plays. I'd rather do flawed American plays than outstanding foreign plays...
...households, most of them in the West and not yet asleep, got a chance to follow the beginning live reportage. The rest of the country awoke to recaps of the tragedy on radio and TV. Along with updating the story with each reprise, the networks were clearly in a race to be the first to interview the Senator's congressional colleagues and friends, witnesses, cabdrivers, National Rifle Association officials, men in the street, housewives, children...
...race relations have grown more embittered in Oakland, Calif., and outbreaks of violence have increased, the conservative Oakland Tribune (circ. 235,000) has earned the wrath of Negroes by solidly backing the police in every confrontation. Publisher William F. Knowland, 59, onetime Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, has recently hired more Negro guards. At the same time, he has turned the already imposing Tribune building into something of a fortress. Every employee must show his pass before he can enter; Knowland's own office door is kept locked, and anyone seeking admission is scrutinized through a peephole...