Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's been a slight misunderstanding at Dudley House...
Normally, Locher would have been re-elected easily, but Cleveland's Negroes had cause to be, unhappy with him. When local civil rights groups demanded an audience with the mayor last summer after a supposed slight by the chief of police, Locher refused. The result: a three-day sit-in at City Hall in which four Negroes were arrested for trespassing. Running as an independent, Stokes came within a whisker (2,458 out of a total 236,977 votes cast) of beating Locher.* As it turned out, he polled 36% of the vote, which is almost exactly Cleveland...
...state's case against a Negro woman charged with impeding a lawful arrest. "If Rena Frye had not interfered with the police officer when they were trying to arrest her son Marquette," Rayford Fountain said, "all we would have today would be a hoy with a slight scar on his forehead, a boy who had experienced a slight jab to his stomach, the effects of which he probably wouldn't remember by this time anyway...
...stepping aside, she will save herself a rugged and possibly losing campaign. Oregon's able Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 43, who cannot run for a third term, is an odds-on bet to try for the Senate. Private polls show him running slightly ahead of Mrs. Solomon. But Oregon Democrats are not a one-woman organization, and their candidate against Hatfield will most likely be six-term Congresswoman Edith Green, 55. A poll by the Portland Oregonian gave her a slight lead over Hatfield...
Road to Suicide? Wilson's chances seemed slight. In his talks with Smith last month in London, it had become painfully clear that neither side would make any meaningful compromise on the fundamental issue. The British would give Rhodesia its freedom only on condition that the nation's 4,000,000 blacks be guaranteed control of the government within the foreseeable future. To most of the 220,000 whites, however, that would be suicide. They offered only two meaningless gestures: allowing more blacks to vote for the 15 African seats in parliament, and the creation of an almost...