Word: wichitas
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Cook, who is white, talked to white Americans and found terror in a section of Boston, fatalistic self-pity in Alabama, smug indifference in Wichita. Of course there are islands of amity and good will, but right now they do not seem to be characteristic of the situation. Concludes Cook: "The final impression is one of sameness: universal opposition to busing children to once-black schools, annoyance at what strikes whites as special treatment for blacks seeking education or jobs, reluctance to admit that local problems have local origins. Whites prefer to put the blame elsewhere. They...
...WICHITA, KANS...
...Wichita is as far from Boston's Dorchester-Mattapan section as it is from the Deep South. It is a prairie city, at 300,000 the largest in Kansas, a center of oil and agriculture, a major aircraft producer (Boeing, Beech, Cessna). It is also Middle America. Blacks make up just 12% of its population; it is only by accident of rotation that the single city commissioner who is black will become its next mayor. Wichita is a "placid" sort of place, says outgoing Mayor Donald Enoch. It is deeply conservative; the town fathers banned a proposed Wichita production...
...PERKINS Wichita Falls, Texas...
...managed to umpire one game at the sub-minors National Baseball Congress in Wichita, Kan. Since then, however, she has been given nothing but the runaround. New York-Penn's President Vincent McNamara rejected her first application because of the lack of adequate facilities for women and the language used by players. When she threatened to take her case to the Human Rights Division, McNamara relented-only to be overruled by Piton...