Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinating sidelight is the treatment of the whole episode in the Soviet press. Moscow papers have produced objective, detailed and horrified reports of the way the Chinese are running a Marxist revolution. "The Red Guards beat up a worker because he happened to be in a room where they found a crack in the frame of a portrait of Mao," reported Pravda last week. "They beat people with sticks, rifle butts, chairs and electric wires. One man was tortured a whole night. When he lost consciousness, they poured cold water over him, and kept torturing him until he died." Pravda...
...when the nation was appalled by the brutal treatment of Negro demonstrators at the hands of white Southern police, the Senate for the first time invoked cloture to pass a civil rights bill. Again in 1965, a Senate filibuster was choked off, and the voting rights bill became law. This year the climate has changed. Against the backdrop of violence that has engulfed Negro slums from Cleveland to Atlanta, many Americans are troubled by the implications of the black-power movement. Their mood is not, to say the least, strongly sympathetic to a civil rights bill that in some ways...
...that in the showdown Bobby would ultimately command the loyalties of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce Secretary John Connor and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien is considered a question mark...
That the U.S. poor need legal aid has not been seriously disputed. What no one has been sure of, however, is just what the poor themselves want legal aid for. Do they want to bring suit against slumlords, loan sharks and business cheats? Or do they want better treatment under welfare legislation? In Wisconsin last week after six weeks' operation of federally financed aid to the poor, the answer seemed to be that they most want to sue each other-for divorce...
...Director A. B. de Vries has managed to bring together eleven of the greatest, the largest such gathering since a 1696 Amsterdam auction. Setting them off is a complementary exhibition of masterpieces, ranging from Caravaggio to Cézanne, which echo Vermeer's serenity of spirit and magical treatment of light...