Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voter registration is no less important than it was. With roughly half of the Mississippi population disenfranchised, he said, Southern leaders will not be forced to alter their racially conservative stance...
...once, it could be believed. Nudged and cheered by surging crowds, kept under all but constant surveillance by television cameras, Paul appeared no less the spiritual monarch but more the appealing human being. Like other men, a Pope can suffer from the cold-a fact made clear when Paul alter a momentary breath of the 44° weather that greeted him in New York abruptly switched from his open-top Lincoln to an enclosed limousine for the ceremonial motorcade through the city Popes, too, can tire: unerringly, cameras zoomed in to catch the lines of fatigue that etched his lean...
Wary Legislators. As an interim reform, the Scranton administration last week pressed state legislators to raise magistrates' salaries, require new ones to be lawyers, cut the present number to 18, and drastically alter the case-assignment system to prevent collusion. Even that modest package is given scant chance of passage. As a troubled Scranton aide points out: "These men are probably the most powerful politicians in the state. They do favors for people every day, and state legislators are scared to death of them...
Garbled Message. Dr. Fogh's most provocative finding: when PPLO infect human cells grown in test tubes, they destroy some cells, but-more significantly-alter the genetic material of others. They cause the development of deformed chromosomes, and even of entirely new chromosomes never seen in natural cells. Thus, their presence gives the cell a garbled genetic message so that it will produce abnormal daughter cells-a process sometimes observed in cancer. Neither Dr. Fogh nor anyone else is yet ready to say flatly that PPLO cause cancer, but since researchers have found the organisms in test-tube growths...
...from failures to keep pace with change. For one thing, the labor movement is middle-aged and increasingly middleclass, powerful and sometimes arrogant, but without the lean, hungry and imaginative leaders of the past. For another, unions are faced with a new industrial revolution in automation, which promises to alter the very role and function of human labor...