Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial offices in the TIME &; LIFE Building in the heart of Manhattan, just across the Avenue of the Americas from Radio City Mu sic Hall, may seem to be a long way from the farm. Yet there was more than a touch of nostalgia among the reporting-writing-editing team that worked on this week's cover story about American Farm Bureau President Charles Shuman...
Miami Castro watchers speculated that he was so shaken by the overthrow of his Algerian counterpart, Ben Bella, that he doubts his own popularsupport. In any case, there was a touch of urgency about the new policy that suggested serious concern. Failure to turn in military weapons by Sept. 1, warned Radio Havana, would be punished not by criminal courts but bythe dreaded Revolutionary Tribunals - those kangaroo courts that havealready sentenced to death at least 1,100 Cubans since Castro took over...
...made little effort to understand its problems or anticipate its difficulties. Though the city's 540,000 Negroes represent more than one-fifth of its population, Yorty has relied mostly on three Negro city councilmen and "a fine group of Negro ministers" to keep him in touch with the Black Channel−which regards Yorty's men as Uncle Toms. As a result, says a Los Angeles Negro psychiatrist, black Angelenos feel that they are victims of "disregard, hypocritical attitudes and paternalism...
...says "I want good schooling for my child," even in Louisiana. The War on Poverty offers him assistance in getting a job and occupational training; Project Head Start provides catch-up preschool education for his kids. Yet just as the framework of civil rights laws gets its finishing touch come angry Negro cries from California: "I haven't got a chance. Whitey is sitting on me. I can't wait any longer. Burn, baby, burn...
...versatility, Rentrop's kind of one-man coverage of city hall is fast disappearing. The Post & Times-Star now assigns additional reporters to cover city news, and papers elsewhere are enlarging their staffs to cope with increasing urban change: soaring population, urban sprawl, federal programs that touch all aspects of city life. "Before, you could just sit in the mayor's office and find out all you needed to know," says Wayne Whitt, the Nashville Tennessean's top city hall reporter. "Now the mayor is often trying to find out what is going on himself...