Word: barriere
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...unemployment is three times that of the whites in Los Angeles. Our economic situation is so bad that less than half of us are able to finish high school. That means we can't even break the language barrier with the whites, so we can't even begin to get the jobs we need?it's a vicious circle, but we'll break it any way we can. We have the leadership now, you know. Suddenly, our people are getting educations. In 1967 only 350 Mexicans were going to U.C.L.A.; now there are a thousand. This can make a revolution...
...really do work here.) Mrs. Draper mentioned that her husband is a cook at Harkness, We didn't quite know what to say. Couldn't crack any jokes about the food. All of a sudden the euphoria wore off and we were confronted by the reality, the separation, the barrier between us and them...
...Once the barrier against a political test is breached, the test will be applied by the side with money and organization, the Right: the test will not long be applied by the side that is right only in fashion and fragmentation. The Left may apply a political test for a year; but the Right will apply it for a decade. The Left needs the university: the Right needs only a confederation of trade schools...
...PHILA.; DANBURY, CONN.-Another barrier has fallen in the struggle for equal rights and opportunity. Men have begun entering-and winning-homecoming day beauty contests on college campuses...
Ulbricht's economic success rests in part on one of the monstrosities of modern times: the Wall. From 1945 until 1961, when the Communists erected the 28-mile barrier that seals off East Berlin from western parts of the city, 3,600,000 East Germans, including some of the most promising scientists and young workers, fled to the West. The Wall forced those penned behind it to acknowledge that they would be spending the rest of their lives in the East-so why not try to make the best of a bad situation? To encourage the changing mood, Ulbricht...