Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deserted streets, some of them paced by a snarling police dog. On Cermak Road, the boundary between the community's white and Negro neighborhoods, stores shut down or were empty of customers. Said a police sergeant: "In my 30 years here, there has never been such a rash of racial violence...
Since this is an election year in New York (see THE NATION), the teachers got fast action. Mayor Wagner personally visited the school and got more publicity than he bargained for when a rat scurried across his path in the auditorium. Pictured in the papers, this scene encouraged a rash of complaints...
...BEGIN, edited by Richard L Grossman (144 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $1.95), is part of a rash of books about the New Frontier. John Kennedy had been in the White House for a little more than two weeks when a task force of 14 writers and photographers was at work recording, in words and pictures, the first 100 days of his new Administration. The contributors include men and women of such established reputation as Princeton's History Professor Eric F. (Rendezvous with Destiny) Goldman and the London Economist's Barbara Ward, but their product is a weird paste...
...military pressure. Should fighting cease, the rugged F.L.N. bands will be tempted to lay down their arms and abandon their mountain hideouts, thus leaving the F.L.N. without a military force in being. To meet the threat of peace, the rebels last week redoubled their efforts in Algeria with a rash of isolated assassinations and bomb throwings. At Miliana, 90 miles from Algiers, rebels ambushed a convoy, killing eleven gendarmes. At Sidi Aich, in rugged Kabylia, 14 Moslem soldiers in the French army deserted to the F.L.N., killing four French soldiers and four Moslems who refused to join them...
...functions somewhat more limited than the present organization; to limit the membership to 22, which would include one man elected at large from each House, one man selected by each House Committee, and four freshmen; and to find a way to use profitably non-Council talent. Despite Bailey's rash action in leading Dunster out of the Council, he has promised to put down the shotgun. He hopes the committee, of which he is a member, "will take its time" and think long and carefully before acting. This is excellent news. The work needs thorough research and painstaking care desperately...