Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble erupted first in Paterson, a city of 146,000 people (one-sixth of them Negroes), when a pack of carousing teen-agers in the slum Fourth Ward began pelting passing police cars with bottles and rocks. Soon hundreds of Negroes were racing through the streets, smashing windows and hurling debris at police. Almost simultaneously, 20 miles south of Paterson, hit-and-run bombers in Elizabeth, a city of 110,000 people (with 20,000 Negroes), pitched Molotov cocktails into three taverns. Before long, hundreds of Negroes were flinging bottles and bricks from rooftops and street corners...
...leaders laid the violence to the wrongs of ghetto life. Paterson's Mayor Graves conceded that Negroes in his city had just complaints, but he argued angrily that the riots were not a legitimate expression of their grievances. Said Graves, as he slapped a ban on all Fourth Ward public assemblies except weddings and funerals: "This was just plain old lousy lawbreakers who are using their color to say they can't be arrested...
...began when police were called to Ward F, a slum-ridden and low-income-housing area that is home to most of Jersey City's 47,000 Negroes. They arrested a Negro woman for drunkenness, also took into custody a Negro man for interfering with the arrest. Almost instantly there mushroomed a rumor that the police had beaten the woman. Within half an hour, 20 Negroes were demonstrating at the Fourth Precinct station house; before long, 800 angry Negroes were milling around a Ward-F housing project looking for trouble. It wasn't long in coming...
Hard News. Schechner has won such praise by putting into his magazine something most literary editors overlook-hard news. When Julian Beck and his wife Judith Malina, the founders of Manhattan's Living Theater, barricaded themselves in their theater to ward off eviction, he interviewed them through a megaphone. He keeps in touch with European theater on both sides of the Curtain. He prints a previously unpublished play in each issue; so far, each of the plays has been produced within a few months of its T.D.R. debut. Though Tulane University provides a New Orleans office and financial...
Before his death three years ago, Eero Saarinen traveled a long way to ward an architecture far beyond the glass-and-steel purism that seemed the ultimate in construction a decade ago. His Yale colleges are mounds of masonry; his Dulles airport terminal is canopied concrete; his CBS building a granite monument in great triangular piers. His headquarters (see opposite page) for Deere & Co., makers of farm machinery, returns to glass and steel-used in an utterly original...