Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desegregation beyond the boundaries of increasingly black cities into the largely white suburbs. But when school opened last week, says Burton, "I was forced to shift from pondering and interviewing to the more practical chore of ordering helmets for bureau staffers." Then Burton, Correspondent David Wood and bureau stringers spread out to cover the trouble spots as well as the schools where desegregation has proceeded calmly and successfully. TIME correspondents in Boston did not have to use the helmets, but Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, Correspondent Richard Woodbury and Photographer James De Free all encountered overt hostility in Louisville: when...
...crime, but psychiatrists point out that a person who is crazed enough to want to kill a national political figure would somehow find a way to get his hands on a weapon. Ford's proposed gun legislation, now lying fallow in Congress, is aimed mainly at curbing the spread of "Saturday night specials"−cheap, small-caliber pistols. The .45 Colt automatic operated by Squeaky Fromme is not covered by the proposal...
California law officials have much evidence of a loose, long-standing conjunction between the Manson family and a close-knit, all-white group of 200 inmates spread throughout the California prison system called the Aryan Brotherhood, which shares with the family an intense hatred of blacks. The brotherhood maintains outside links with a profitable drug operation...
...word of the fighting spread, antibusing forces, most of them teenagers, began gathering at other nearby schools. At Southern High, they smashed the windows and slashed the tires of 40 school buses and set fire to two more, built bonfires and chanted: "We don't want niggers in our schools" and "Send Gordon [James Gordon, the U.S. district judge who had ordered the busing] back to Moscow." Elsewhere in the suburban area, street signs were torn down, stores looted, and gas-station pumps ripped out. Only after 350 state troopers were called in to aid the beleaguered...
...commercial banks and other lenders are protecting themselves against the possibility of continued double-digit inflation by charging more for their money-especially on some long-term loans. Rates on four-year Treasury bills are now two percentage points higher than three-month rates-an unusually wide spread that plainly signals an upsurge in inflationary expectations in the money markets...