Word: 136th
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Julian was elected from the 136th Legislative district, a predominantly Negro area in Atlanta. Although it touches on the campus of Atlanta University and includes some of the middle-class residential neighborhood surrounding the school, the bulk of the 136th is a slum, known locally as Vine City. Visiting door-to-door, checking in at all the churches, bars, restaurants, and grocery stores, Julian discussed with his constituents his campaign issues: a $2 minimum wage law, a "liberalized urban renewal program," repeal of "right-to-work" laws, abolition of the death penalty and removal of all voter requirements except...
There are 400 white voters in the 136th. (All the candidates were Negroes.) Julian had them canvassed by white Southerners in SNCC. When the voting was finished, the 26 year-old press secretary had won 2,305 to 486 to become one of eight Negroes elected, the first in the Georgia House since...
...Only a breakdown could beat the Scotsman now: his nearest competitor, Parnelli Jones, was H min. behind. On the 136th lap, Clark ducked into the pits for the last time waved away a new set of goggles and a glass of water, roared out again in 24.7 sec. His orders were "Take it easy"-and Clark did, throttling back to 150 m.p.h., then 145. At the end, he was 5 mi. ahead...
With wry bitterness, Hondurans call their small Central American republic "the land of the 70s-70% illiterate, 70% rural, 70% illegitimate." And they might add 70% politically unstable. The military coup that ousted President Ramón Villeda Morales, 54, was the 136th revolution in 142 years of independence from Spain. Only two constitutionally elected chiefs of state have completed their terms...