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...plan of CORE's Brooklyn chapter to tie up traffic at the World's Fair tomorrow has stirred a bitter controversy over the tactics of the protest. The proponents of the demonstration point out that the stall-in Would give civil rights groups an invincible bargaining position for their demands on the city administration. A successful protest would embarass the city and in the future the mere threat of another massive traffic snarl would deter thousands from leaving home, decimating the revenues from the fair...
...critics stress the danger of a backwash of resentment against the militancy of a plan to constipate movement of traffic through the city. The stall-in, they argue, will alienate moderates from the civil rights struggle. This would make the city officials more hesitant to act and could reinforce any campaign in the Senate to water down the civil rights bill. And so the debate has raged...
Through it is unrealistic to expect an immediate plan on the complex school issue, the remaining demands of the CORE groups are sensible measures. The stall-in threat has been firmly laid down. Even if the demonstration seems unwise, this tactical question must be seen in its proper perspective; the crucial problem is the long-neglected racial injustices in New York...
...Crimeds raced to an early 23-0 lead, and, with a dazzling display of ball handling sparked by guard Richard Andrews, went into a 20-minute stall. Only a 50-foot desperation shot at the final buzzer by Robert Vort saved the Quakers from a shutout...
Andrews snared the rebound and Penn went back into its stall. Sedlacek broke it up by fouling cold-shooting Stan Pawlak with 29 seconds...