Word: raps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torn ghettos, if the aftermath of Watts is any lesson, will not be reconstructed. And sadly, most whites lack the intelligence and magnanimity to realize that compassion and sharply escalated governmental spending and attention are called for. They will look for conspiracies, fix their gaze on the H. Rap Browns, call for stricter police control, and encourage their Congressmen to continue reducing anti-poverty spending...
...assembled leaders of black power couldn't have sounded responsible to Whitey-and they couldn't have cared less. The Student Nonviolent Coordinat ing Committee's H. Rap Brown urged Negroes to "wage guerrilla war on the honkie white man," added: "I love violence." Los Angeles Black Nationalist Ron Karenga remarked at the opening session: "Everybody knows Whitey's a devil. The question is what to do about it." Notably absent were the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Harlem's Adam...
...Jokers tells about two young men who make off with the Crown Jewels just to show they can do it. The two are brothers: one is thirty-ish suave; the other, a modly dressed stripling. The Stripling has always taken the rap for exploits they've planned together. While his brother sat tight in London acting the model man, upholder of Elizabeth's England, the Stripling got expelled from Cambridge and Sandhurst. The story shows how The stripling and Mr. Suave prove they're brilliant, the less likely one proves he's even trickier, both wind up in jail. Tucked...
...year-old mother in Columbia, S.C., he flew up to Washington to confer with the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon. He was barely able to conceal his anger over the suggestion that U.S. forces were not being used at full efficiency. It seemed he was taking a bum rap so the President and McNamara could hold down the budget deficit and avert a bigger tax increase...
...Gangland Songbird Joe Valachi as a ranking dope racketeer and presumed successor to Frank Costello as the Mafia's New York political fix-it man, a dapper native of Sicily whose only prison time, despite two murder arrests, was a short term on a 1922 stolen-car rap, all the while fiercely maintaining that his luxurious home and six-figure income was the product of honest hard work in his Seventh Avenue garment factories; after a long illness; in Lido Beach...