Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vastness of St. Patrick's Cathedral, it was from first to last a peculiarly personal Kennedy occasion. The women wore black, their daughters white; the Mass, even for the dead, carries the promise of life. Ethel and Rose displayed yet again the steely grace that seems to sustain all women born to or married to Kennedys. Children were a big part of Bobby's life, and played a part in the service. Four sons served as acolytes. Eight of their brothers, sisters and cousins bore the bread, the wine and the sacred vessels to the high altar...
...always help him. He publicly questioned the war long before it became popular to do so, spoke in favor of the poor in affluent areas where it was clearly not to his advantage, and defended law and order in the ghettos, where such a statement by any other white man would have been interpreted as anti-Negro. A curious blend of liberal and conservative, he was concerned about poverty and the cities, yet convinced that the Government should not always take on their full burden...
...President, Otto Arosemena, "is poorer than a porter on Wall Street." The 2% of the population that the government considers to be rich has an annual per capita income of only $1,167. Most of the country's 5,400,000 people-40% Indian, 50% mestizo and 10% white-live in abject poverty, either scratching out a living in the scabrous, rock-strewn Andes or drifting into the reeking slums that blight the cities like open sores. With the disarming candor and detachment of one who is stepping down from power-and is glad of it-Arosemena tells...
...prospects for Velasco's fifth government, which takes office August 31, are not much brighter than those of his earlier ones. Though he himself won handily, the gaunt, white-haired septuagenarian wound up with only 35 seats for his supporters in Ecuador's 132-member Congress. But he can at least take comfort from the fact that the country's 20,000-man army appears for the time being to have lost its zeal for rule. Rather than subjecting Ecuador to another debilitating series of interim governments that lack both power and popular support, the army plans...
...fastest-growing new academic specialties in U.S. universities is Negro culture. Whether prodded by militant black student groups, equally concerned white students or faculty conscience, the nation's colleges are rushing to add courses in Negro history, literature, anthropology, music and art. San Francisco State even has a course in "Black Psychology," while Colgate Rochester Divinity School this fall will begin a program of "Black Church Studies...