Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objection" coming from the Administration. Equally significant was a recent speech by New Hampshire Democrat Thomas Mclntyre, chairman of the Armed Services subcommittee on research and development. He raised the possibility of concentrating effort for the time being on the Safeguard components that need the most work, the radars and computer systems...
...York at present have no purchase on their own natural wit and intelligence," he says. "They have no purpose other than to watch with a certain gallows humor the progressive deterioration of their city." Under Mailer's plan for semi-independent neighborhoods, however, "those energies could begin to work for their deepest and most private and most passionate ideas about the nature of government, the nature of man's relation to his own immediate society...
Most Negro leaders in recent years have been stigmatized as either Uncle Toms or fire-eating militants. As a result, there are few who can work in the upper echelons of white society while retaining their independence and the respect of the blacks on the street. One black leader who has succeeded in that ambivalent role is Frank Ditto, 39, a community organizer of the East Side ghetto of Detroit's inner city...
...shops still define the fury of the 1967 riots. ESVID runs a black-uniformed corps of 126 black youths that patrols the ghetto, escorting people through the crime-ridden streets and protecting threatened store owners -both black and white. The patrols also report alleged instances of police brutality and work to clean up their neighborhood. Ditto organized the Political Education Project (PEP), a junior version of city hall made up of black teen-agers who were elected last year by 2,700 high school students. PEP officials serve as liaison with the Detroit city government, start improvement projects and study...
...aggressive in presenting grievances against ghetto schools; he is the most strident in denouncing racism. So rough-spoken has he been at times that the city administration has asked New Detroit to curb him. His defenders say that his manner is necessary for his effectiveness. "The white people who work privately with him say he is cooperative and constructive," says the community relations director of one automobile manufacturer. The ministers who brought Ditto to Detroit support his tactics. Says a black former Salvation Army officer, the Rev. Bob Baldwin: "We need a thousand Frank Dittos on the East Side...