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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York brought to them a personal understanding. As a university student in West Germany shortly after World War II, Tinnin watched the growing isolation of the citizens of East Germany. Muson studied Marxism at Harvard. Re searcher Mary McConachie, considered something of a Czechoslovakia specialist for THE WORLD section, polished her command of the Czech lan guage while working as press secretary in Prague for the British Foreign Service from 1957 to 1959. She remembers the sadness of a gracious people afraid to be caught talking to a Westerner. "They thought I was a spy," Mary says, "simply because...
...advanced social welfare system. There is a brisk traffic of Jews and Arabs, for business and pleasure, between the two sectors of the formerly divided city. On Friday nights young Jews can, for example, escape from the rigors of the Sabbath into three discotheques in the Arab section. Most important, until last week there had been no major incidents of violence among the two populations of Jerusalem...
Richberg's Cafe on U.S. Highway 11 in Enterprise, Miss., served customers Southern style: blacks entered and ate at one end of the establishment, whites at the other, with a partition in between. That type of separation was outlawed in 1964 by the public-accommodation section of the Federal Civil Rights Act, which applied to the cafe because substantial quantities of food and beverages served came from outside the state. But such new-found laws were not about to move Proprietor A. W. Richberg. When the Federal Government sued, Richberg simply renamed the cafe's white section "Dixie...
...Internal Revenue Service probably does not know what to make of Bill Drake. How can he run a multimillion-dollar radio consulting service out of his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles? And that inflatable plastic armchair and the swimming pool in which it floats - are they taxable as luxuries or deductible as an executive suite...
...report, but the most effective disclaimer came from Nixon in private meetings with Southerners. "I won't do anything that would hurt development of the two-party system in the South," Nixon told them. "I won't take anybody that I have to shove down the throats of any section of the country." Thus such Nixon loyalists as Party Chairman Harry Dent of South Carolina were able to tell skeptics on the floor: "I've got it written in blood...