Word: americas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live and suffer life in New York. For four years, Procaccino and those he seeks to lead have endured what they feel is a special form of outrage, over and above rising taxes and prices, crumbling services, strife-torn schools and all the other familiar ills of big-city America. That outrage is the administration of Mayor John Vliet Lindsay, which, they feel, has ignored them in its undue preoccupation with the city's blacks and poor. Lindsay liberals, by and large, are not merely for racial equality; they believe that society's stepchildren must be given extra helpings...
Spokesmen for civil rights groups and labor unions paraded before the committee to attack Judge Haynsworth's record on integration and labor-management cases. William Pollock, general president of the Textile Workers Union of America, said that Haynsworth was part of a "conspiracy." The aim, said Pollock, was to limit the rights of workers. Samuel Tucker of the N.A.A.C.P. blasted Haynsworth's "persistent hostility" to the Constitution's promise of racial equality. Eight of the House of Representatives' nine Negro members endorsed a statement opposing confirmation. They said it would "unequivocally tell black people that...
Only Latin America fell behind seriously last year; drought caused a drop of 2% in food output, while population increased by 2%. Developing countries in Africa increased farm production by 2%, while population went up an estimated 2.5%. By contrast, the food-shy developing countries in Asia, where ancient methods of farming are gradually giving way to more efficient cultivation of high-yield strains of rice and wheat, increased their food pro duction by 5% for the second year in a row. The biggest gains were made by Malaysia (11%) and Thailand (8%). In the Western world, the U.S., Canada...
...This is a revolutionary government," Ovando shrugged at a press conference, "and we cannot yet speak about elections." Whatever its politics, Bolivia has become the ninth Latin American country to come under military rule, thus joining a growing club whose members now control more than half of Latin America's 260 million people...
...Actually, we're already married, really," says America's 25-year-old folk hero, "because people get married when they love each other." Still, to avoid "a hassle," Arlo Guthrie and Jackie Hyde, 25, will soon take the vows-possibly in the deconsecrated Stockbridge, Mass, church that was his home in the film Alice's Restaurant. The balladeer-song-writer met his "very groovy chick" while performing in Los Angeles at the Troubadour Cafe, where she was serving tables. "She has the same philosophy I have," he says. "We're just interested in living...