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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY has emerged within the black community. The big outbursts starting with Harlem, 1964, were riots of rising expectations, of frenzy at the gap between reality and the promise of the Civil Rights Acts. The riots showed blacks they were not impotent, but also that their best hopes resided in themselves, not in the white man's City Hall or in Washington. Explains Junius Williams, 25, black founder of the Newark Area Planning Association: "The rebellion kicked off something in a lot of people's minds. We've got power, they said...
...point of violence has already been reached. "I would think we have passed that," he said last week. If he is right-and events going back through this summer to the Martin Luther King riots of 1968 indicate that he might be-it is an extraordinary and unexpected evolution within the black revolution. In the worst hours of the most reckless rioting, many white Americans feared that the fire next time would strike where the white man lives and works. This ugly vision of race war on the white man's doorstep led bridge-playing suburban housewives to sign...
...power and perquisites of the U.S. presidency, some of the problems of ordinary citizens necessarily follow a man into the White House. Like living within one's income, and keeping up the payments on the mortgage...
...Spanish-style villa now known familiarly as White House West, was $1.4 million. The terms were $400,000 down and $100,000 per year, plus 7½% interest per year on the initial outstanding debt of $1,000,000. The sale called for the principal to be paid off within five years. Normally, such an undertaking would require prodigious amounts of cash: annual payments of $175,000 for five years and then a liquidating wallop payout...
...arrangement seems slightly surrealistic, but it is cheaper than most available mortgages would be. In effect, the President is paying off the additional land at today's prices, holding it and gambling on a continuation of the upward trend in real estate prices in the San Clemente area. Within the five-year period, the President will sell all but his five acres and house. If his gamble pays off, he will retire the debt on the borrowed money and perhaps even make a profit. Just to whom the President will sell is not known. It could be a "compatible...