The dream decade of Black progress and its limits
A decade after King's dream, Black gains in law and office contrasting with persistent poverty and inequality. Experts note sharp gains in civil rights, voter access, and representation, yet critics warn of ongoing gaps in income, unemployment, education, and health. The era also sees changing attitudes and a race-conscious public climate.
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John Hope Franklin
Congress
National Commission On Civil Disorders
America
Scamnon and
Wattenberg
South
District of Columbia
Joint Center For Political Studies
National Congress
Kenneth Clark
America Burning Arson as a social protest in New York and beyond
The piece surveys a rise in incendiary fires tied to political and social unrest in 1970s America. It notes scarce data on protest versus routine fires, cites state and city figures on arson, and quotes Fire Commissioner Richard Bland urging prevention, inspection, and education to curb deliberate blazes amid urban unrest.
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National Commission On Fire Prevention and Control
Richard Bland
Fire Commission
America
New York
Newark
N.J
Bland
Creative writing teacher writes acclaimed novels
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Brooklyn College associate professor of English, is an emerging novelist and poet. She recalls early doubts about her talents, but has published Falling and The Witch and the Weather Report, with more works upcoming. She writes at night and values teaching despite growing literary success.
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Joy Stilley
AP Newsfeatures
NEW York (Ap
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
University of Chicago
Secand
New York Times
Payola Rumors Shake Record Industry Across Years
In a sweeping look at payola from vaudeville to the late 1950s and beyond, the piece notes promoters paid performers, Alan Freed’s conviction, and Dick Clark’s ties to royalties. It cites ongoing drug rumors, FCC control, and industry executives defending, denying, or framing payola as a broader crime affecting the music business.
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Alan Freed
Dick Clark
Tucson
Tallahassee
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Manhattan
New York
Mamaroneck
Record Industry Association of America
Newsweek
The
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
Rolling Stone
Time Magazine
FCC
RCA Victor
Books by United Press International and Best Sellers
Book reviews note United Press International titles including a Vietnam War novel about a Marine platoon led by a troubled lieutenant and other works by Joan Hanauer Harold H. Martin Ralph McGill and Beatrice Berle. Also lists UPS best sellers across fiction and nonfiction with authors such as Vonnegut Susann Shaw Ludlum Bach Lessing Bach and Halberstam among others.
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United Press International
William Turner Huggett
Putnam
Marine Corps
Joan Hanauer
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Jacqueline Susann
LIONS
Tom Wicker
Byzantium
Irwin Shaw
Matlock Paper
Robert Ludlum
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon
Jonathan Livingston
Seagull
Richard Bach
Doris Lessing
Odessa File
Frederick Forsyth
LAW and Order
Dorothy Uhnak
DR. Atkins
Robert C. Atkins
Sex
Alex Comfort
Sybil
Flora L. Schreiber
Arthur Rubenstein
Barbara Howar
O.K
Thomas Harris
Weight Watchers
Jean Nidetech
Louis Nizer
David Halberstam
Serpico
Peter Maas
Capote to Write NBC Drama Uncle Sam's Hard Luck Hotel
New NBC project by Truman Capote an original 90 minute drama about a half way house for convicts. CBS adds NFL veterans Timmy Brown Tommy Mason Peter Retzlaff Bart Starr and Wayne Walker to game reporting staff. ABC Monty Hall signs long term production deal plus Lets Make a Deal. Screen Gems to adapt Roberto Clemente life into a 60 minute film to be shown on NBC during a mercy mission in Nicaragua.
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Georgia
Julian Bond
Congress
Jim Crow
Aunt Jemima
Stepin Fetchit
Vietnam
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
King
Washington
Wilkins
Tom
Movement Center
Whitney Young
Malcolm X
Eldridge Cleaver
Stokely Carmichael
H. Rap Brown
SNCC
CORE
SCLC
Martin Luther King
New York
UPI
Truman Capote
NBC
Capote
CBS
NFL
Timmy Brown
Tommy Mason
Peter Retzlaff
Bart Starr
Wayne Walker
Screen Gems
Pittsburgh
Roberto Clemente
Idol
Puerto Rico
Nicaragua
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Martin King
Richard Scammon
Ben Wattenberg
Waltenberg
Herrington Bryce
JCPS
Panama Canal
Bryce
Maryland
Mississippi
United States
NEA
Spanish Harlem
Harrisburg
N.Y
West Side
Siberia
Kate Smith
Rudy Vallee
RCA Victor Hound
Zensehees Television
Raio
Senate
Atlantic Recording Corp
Atlantic Records
Eiven
Alumi
Num
Ralph McGill
Harold H. Martin
Atlantic-Little, Brown
McGill
Martin
Adolf A. Berle
Beatrice Bishop Berle
Travis Beal Jacobs
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Berle
Gary Hart
George McGovern
McGovern
Eagleton
Leonard Marlin
Crown
Disney
Publishers’ Weekly
ABC
Monty Hall
Hel’s
Hope
Ark
Jane Schmitt
Perrytown
Murfreesboro
Catowa
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