Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York politicians. Puerto Ricans already cast enough votes to tip a close citywide election, and probably a lot more of them could vote if they were not disqualified by the state's literacy requirement. Last week Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner proposed a way to get around this inconvenient barrier to bigger Puerto Rican turnouts at the polls. If literacy tests could not be abolished entirely, he said, it was "obviously right" that Puerto Ricans should be allowed to take theirs in Spanish...
...XXIII. Anglican Bishop Oliver Tomkins of Bristol, the Conference's presiding officer, declared that there was now the possibility of "a positive and fruitful dialogue" between Rome and other confessions. The Roman guests agreed, and Toronto's Father Gregory Baum even admitted that there was no dogmatic barrier to Rome's joining the World Council-although such a move now might be misunderstood by both Catholics and Protestants...
...list prices mean little in discount houses, and even retail outlets have begun to crack color TV's long-held "$400 barrier." Sears, Roebuck recently reduced its 21-in. Silvertone sets from $449 to $388 and is selling them for as low as $365 in the hotly competitive Buffalo area. So far this year, Admiral has cut some prices by $95 (to a low of $399.95) and trimmed its charge for a year's service on color sets from $100 to $69.95, while quality-conscious Zenith has pared its lowest prices...
...total of 37, won almost 980,000 of the 2,300,000 ballots cast, emerged with 42% of the vote, a rise of more than 3% since April and more than they had ever polled in Sicily. Wrote one Christian Democratic paper jubilantly: "We have broken the 40% barrier...
Latest to drop the newsprint barrier is the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and Journal. For 30 years, the paper went through the costly routine of stopping its presses on each of seven daily runs, replating one or two pages with Negro news, then starting the presses again. Of 95,000 papers, 75,000 were white, while the rest dropped the financial pages for news of Negro events. When a white edition was inadvertently delivered to a Negro area, claims Publisher Carmage Walls, there were protests. But the split runs "slowed down the operation, and they had to go," said the cost...