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...sheriff's substation nearest Marin City, hailed rocks and gasoline bombs on patrolling deputies. In a flare-up this month, several buildings were set ablaze and responding firemen pelted with rocks. During a meeting at which Negroes voiced their grievances, County Administrator Alan Bruce, a white man, declared: "Whitey is beginning to understand why he is hated so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Watts with View | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...baseball is here, spring can't be far behind. It can't come too soon for Houston Pitcher Turk Farrell: last week he complained that the saliva on his spitball was freezing up. Then there was Mickey Mantle, who wore gloves to bat-and Whitey Ford, who was desolate when the umpire took away the hot-water bottle he was using to keep his pitching fingers warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Cold Wind from Wisconsin | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...Mickey Mantle was warming the bench and lifting sandbags to strengthen the right shoulder which was operated on for removal of a bone chip last winter. The Yanks' new centerfielder was Roy White, a 22-year-old rookie who has never played anything but second base before, Whitey Ford's sore arm was nowhere near as sore as his head-after he pitched seven innings against the Mets' Jacksonville farm club and gave up nine hits, a walk, two homers and four runs. "Kids!" he complained. "They think a slider is a curve that didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Kentucky Windage | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...only way we can get anybody to listen to us is to start a riot," said one Los Angeles Negro. "As long as we lie down we are going to get kicked." Said another resident of Watts, the Negro ghetto where the Los Angeles riot erupted: "Whitey will have to help us now." Last week Whitey was doing just that. In Washington, President Johnson dispatched to Los Angeles a "task force," headed by Deputy Attorney General Ramsey Clark, to inaugurate a crash program of federal help for the 45-sq.-mi., riot-torn area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Fruits of Fire | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...skills to help him get a job, the young Negro in the deep ghetto is incessantly told by Black Nationalists and civil rights demagogues that "The Man"−white man−is responsible for his savage hopelessness. "The Man" has become a symbol of their despair, and "Get Whitey" has become their battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEGRO AFTER WATTS | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

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