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Shortly afterward began a series of events outstanding in the memory: the race riots of Newark, Detroit, Milwaukee. Sandwiched between these two examples of the breakdown of conventional politics was the first and biggest anti-war demonstration of the summer. In the shadow of Glassboro, it received little national publicity...
SUMMER '67: WHAT WE LEARNED (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A news special on Negro rioting in U.S. cities, focusing on Detroit and Newark. Daniel P. Moynihan, author of the Moynihan report on Negro family life, is among those interviewed...
Between sessions at a conference on religion and the arts at the New York Hilton last week, delegates wandered through a maze of 1,500 cardboard boxes stacked seven feet high in two exhibition halls. Pasted on the vividly painted cartons were collages of photographs from Viet Nam, Newark and Vogue, bits of magazine ads, scribbled quotations from John Kennedy, Albert Camus and Beatle John Lennon. In effect, the exhibit - entitled "Survival with Style"- was a dramatic plea to man's conscience. A message in blank verse invited viewers to mull over the maze and "find alternatives...
Technology-belatedly-is coming to the aid of police in other ways as well. A new, extra-tough plastic helmet, developed by the American Safety Equipment Corp., has deflected countless bricks and bottles in such places as Newark and Cincinnati, while Pennsylvania state police have bought plastic shields, from the Gentex Corp., for even greater protection, gladiator style...
Jewish Blues. In other short stories, Ronald Sukenick coolly chronicles a tale about some free-floating hippies flying "an impossible, ultimate kite" over the East River; and Philip Roth incants a Newark ghetto boyhood in The Jewish Blues. ("The goyim pretended to be something special, while we were actually their moral superiors. And what made us superior was precisely the hatred and the disrespect they lavished so willingly upon...