Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration official and longtime observer of police methods traces the debacle back to the riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination last spring. Said the official: "Daley went crazy. He couldn't believe that his city could do it to him." Daley publicly rebuked his police superintendent for being too soft on the rioters-even though most responsible law officers around the nation commended the Chicago police for their behavior. The mayor compounded his mistake by issuing his approval of shooting looters. The overall effect was to undermine the police department's chain...
...wake of Knowles' concessions and a broadening of the SCC-base through rallies and mass meetings all this week, the SCC Steering Committee has scrapped its plan to take over Richards Hall (the administration building) late this afternoon...
...wake of this change, the old liberal goal of a unified group of insurgents of the early '60's has been scrapped in states with significant minority groups. The new goal are coalitions. Forming a coalition is a touchy business for the context in which it is formed usually determines its degree of success...
...West, Coalition forces are following the well-established lead of California. The California Democratic Council (CDC), formed in the wake of the McCarthy-like Stevenson movement, rose over the past sixteen years to become the major grassroots political organization in a state with a long tradition of weak party organizations. Organized town by town into councils, the CDC has had an important influence on the party candidates and platform. In western states like Arizone, Washington, and Nebraska who have had similar traditions of relatively weak party machines, the CDC is being avidly copied...
Personal Offense. In spite of that splendid record, the man from the suburbs was never fully attuned to the brutal realities of Baltimore's gritty ghettos. Last spring's riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination wrought a peculiar change in Agnew. When he saw the Negroes who had helped him to defeat Mahoney rioting in the ghettos, he took it practically as a personal offense, reacting in the style of the stiff-necked counterpuncher...