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Bold Gamble. Though fewer than a score of black guerrillas were engaged in the battle, the slum telegraph swiftly rapped out reports, igniting a full-scale riot. Looters and arsonists rampaged through a six-square-mile area, as well as in nearby Hough, which suffered a five-day riot in 1966. Mayor Carl Stokes, who as the Negro candidate for the office last year inspired the slogan "Cool Cleveland for Carl," hoped that he might again stave off trouble. He was reluctantly forced to call on Ohio Governor James Rhodes for help. Within twelve hours, 2,700 National Guardsmen were...
Alternative for Agnostics? The five-day Reform conference in Jerusalem, which concluded last week, gave the progressives a solid stake in Israel. While not abandoning their conviction that a Jew should be at home anywhere, the delegates wanted to achieve greater Reform influence in Judaism's traditional homeland. One of Reform's main arguments is that Orthodoxy-implanted in Israel by its post-World War II settlers-is unacceptable to perhaps as much as 70% of the country's Jewish population because of its rigid anachronisms...
...older and simpler time, holidays were days appointed for holy or secular celebration. In the time of the six-day week, nobody cared much what particular day they fell on. The emphasis was on the patriotic speeches, perhaps the parade through town, and a welcome day off from work. Now, with the five-day week and the superhighway, the happiest holidays are those that happen to fall on a Monday or Friday, thus providing a three-day weekend. As any ski enthusiast or beach fancier can testify, there is a lot of difference between the two-day regular...
Initiative responsibility, then, rested with the deans and the Administrative Board. During the five-day period between the demonstration and the disciplinary decision, pressures fell upon the Board from all sides. Some Faculty members threatened resignation if any students were severed; others demanded punishment. Students were equally ambivalent, but nevertheless expressed their opinions intensely, frequently, and loudly...
...announced the suspension of four S.D.S. leaders, including its chairman, Mark Rudd. In protest, Rudd and a band of his faithful followers then seized Hamilton Hall, the main classroom building of Columbia's undergraduate college. The demonstrators threw up barricades, apparently trying to duplicate last month's five-day defiance of the administration...