Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOUNDS OF SUMMER...
Monday, June 2 SUMMER FOCUS...
...Burger insisted that all the children attend Methodist Sunday school. The family moved in and around St. Paul; for a time they had a 20-acre farm, raising tomatoes to supplement the meager family income. Burger and his brothers would splash in the pond of a hot summer's day, or pick ripe tomatoes and wolf them down after licking the skin so that the salt would stick...
...Fire Next Time, James Baldwin warned in 1963, and history seemed bent on rewriting the admonition to "a bigger fire next summer." Since Harlem ignited in 1964 and Watts a year later, blacks and whites have shared a fear of each approaching riot season. Can this year be different? Cautiously, with an almost superstitious anxiety that expressions of hope may tempt fate, black and white leaders across the nation look for a better summer...
...concern persist, of course. Police in Chicago worry about a continuation of the snipings and gang shoot-outs that have claimed 29 lives since the beginning of the year. Authorities in New York fear that racial turmoil centered in the schools may spill into the community at large this summer. Pittsburgh police are alert for guerrilla warfare in integrated mill neighborhoods. Despite these threats, despite the knowledge that a single unexpected incident can turn hope to ashes-literally-the dominant mood is that this year the cities are not for burning...