Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been negotiating the sale of his 12-room New York City apartment, and Pat said they have had 16 offers. It is expected to bring the President about $350,000; when he bought it in 1963, the list price was $135,000. The Nixons are not planning beyond the White House years, but San Clemente may well become their permanent home; they are planning to use it as their voting address. Although they spent a househunting weekend there in March, they were not the first presidential visitors. One summer afternoon in 1935, Cotton hosted a barbecue for 4,000 guests...
...continuing controversy over the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system, the Administration is embarrassed by lagging support in Congress and in the country. Representing the White House, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird refuses to settle for anything less than Safeguard, arguing that it is the "minimal step necessary at this time to ensure the security of the American people." But on Capitol Hill the Nixon ABM proposal is faced with diminished backing and is undermining Republican solidarity. There is concern among Nixon advisers that the President could suffer his first defeat this month when ABM comes to a vote...
...series of winsome minidresses, then gave the town fathers and mothers a mild shock by showing up for the coronation in her own gown instead of the one provided by the city. There to bestow the crown was her proud father, who stole a few hours away from the White House to fly down for the festival. Tricia also had something of a surprise in store for him: she revealed that her first official White House party will be a masked ball, because, "it hasn't been done before...
Conflict is seeping downward in the educational system. In Norfolk, Va., 300 students of the predominantly Negro Booker T. Washington High School walked out in protest over the dismissal of a football coach and next fall's football schedule, which does not include any conference games against white schools. New Rochelle High School, near New York City, was forced to close after a disruption over the stationing of a policeman at the school because of previous trouble. Vandalism, violence and vituperative dissent on a broad variety of issues shut down four New York City high schools last week...
Countermeasures. Rushing to the blacks' support, white members of Students for a Democratic Society set up a picket line outside the building. University officials tried to negotiate with the blacks, but were firmly turned away. Determined to recapture "The Straight," 20 whites, most of them from Delta Upsilon fraternity, whose membership is entirely Caucasian, smashed through a window and scuffled with the blacks. They were beaten back...