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Black & White. All of these were tame enough alongside Detroit. The violence there last week was not a race riot in the pattern of the day-long 1943 battle between Negroes and whites that left 34 known dead. Last week poor whites in one section along Grand River Avenue joined teams of young Negroes in some integrated looting. When the rioters began stoning and sniping at firemen trying to fight the flames, many Negro residents armed themselves with rifles and deployed to protect the firemen. "They say they need protection," said one such Negro, "and we're damned well...
Before dawn, Romney, Cavanagh and Negro Congressman Charles Diggs began their day-long quest for the intervention of federal troops (see following story). Detroit's jails were jammed far past capacity, and police converted part of their cavernous garage at headquarters into a noisome, overflowing detention center...
...Berkeley explosions gave impetus to demands that the students themselves be allotted some kind of control over curriculum and living conditions. In their last year, a number of students in this class helped make student participation in University decision-making an important issue, leading Dean Monro to devote a day-long hearing with a visiting Overseers Committee to the subject...
...language requirement. He has ardently supported the efforts of both the HPC and HUC to gain a permanent niche in the decision-making process of the University. And, in general, he has sought means for giving students a more effective voice in policy-making. Recently, he organized a day-long meeting between students and a visiting committee of the Board of Overseers to discuss that problem--including in the undergraduate group, typically, some of his sharpest critics from Students for a Democratic Society...
...drum up support for his programs and get ideas for new ones, Hansen has begun a series of day-long "Main Street meetings" in each of Wyoming's 23 counties, last week drew a talkative crowd of 100 at Lusk (pop. 1,890), the county seat of agricultural Niobrara County, which is steadily losing its young folk to livelier areas. "These are times of rapid change, and state government must be alert to all of its opportunities," he told them. "People expect more of their city and state governments, and I recognize that the things expected must be done...