Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail...
Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail...
...press about sacred cows and starving children? Having just returned from five weeks in India, I find myself shocked by the continuing sameness of the negative cliches about that country. There are sacred cows, there are hungry people, but after 2,400 miles of driving and 1,500 by rail, I saw no sights so extreme as those in your photographs. What I remember most about the poverty I witnessed is the grace and dignity with which it was borne. After fewer than 20 years of independence, a great democracy is growing proudly, though painfully, into maturity. Surely it deserves...
Unity for Division. The second scheme, announced by Mayor John Lindsay last week, is really a doubleheader: it starts with 5½ miles of existing Long Island Rail Road tracks in Brooklyn, calls for covering them over first with the proposed Cross Brooklyn Expressway, then placing on top of that a "spine city" of schools and colleges, housing, parks and community facilities. The planners envision shuttle trains and moving sidewalks to carry people to and from the length of the spine, see the linear plan as capable of indefinite extension...
...stock market. The Dow-Jones industrial average had already worried off 14 points from its Feb. 8 high of 861 for the year when the market met one of its all-too-familiar Mondays. Hit by a scatter shot of news about turndowns in steel, machine-tool and rail-equipment orders, the Dow-Jones plunged 10.69 points-its biggest drop in three months. When the Fed's easy-money move came at midweek, it helped power the market to a 4.12-point gain in a trading day so turbulent that at one point the stock ticker was twelve minutes...