Word: vid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghetto Patrol. Ditto directs the East Side Voice of Independent Detroit (ES-VID), a civic action organization that is the moving force behind a dozen "black pride" projects in the slums, where burned-out shops still define the fury of the 1967 riots. ESVID runs a black-uniformed corps of 126 black youths that patrols the ghetto, escorting people through the crime-ridden streets and protecting threatened store owners -both black and white. The patrols also report alleged instances of police brutality and work to clean up their neighborhood. Ditto organized the Political Education Project (PEP), a junior version...
...candles by incandescent bulbs, beekeeping has been on the decline for some time in Yugoslavia. But for the folk-art fancier, there is still plenty of honey in the old hives: genuine antique beehive paintings now bring up to $1,600 apiece. And at least one enterprising Slovenian, Vid Sedej, 28, is doing a brisk business selling his contemporary versions of beehive paintings at $3 apiece...
Died. Private First Class John Da vid Rogers, 18, adopted son of Singing Cowboy Stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and third of their nine children to die; of asphyxiation due to choking, after celebrating his promotion to pfc; in Gelnhausen, Germany...
...effect a faster cure. But first they had to make the cancers grow lustily, and this they did by giving the rats a variety of hormones. Among them were progestin and an estrogen, hormones which are combined in G. D. Searle & Co.'s famed Enovid (pronounced En-ah-vid) contraceptive pills...