Word: basic
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Seeing White. The Nixon people have been planning their fall campaign since June-with the basic outline going back as far as the summer of 1967-and the Republican strategy is now all but complete. In essence, the pitch will be to whites, with the Negro vote a very secondary consideration. "You can't build a campaign on Negro votes that you don't have and probaoly can't get," says a top Nixon strategist. "We're going after the middle-class Democratic urban voter, and the buttons you push there are Viet...
Whether by hunting or herding or harvesting, a basic tribal function is subsistence in a harsh environment. As relatively powerless people, tribesmen believe in magic, usually hate outsiders and respect any kinsman who survives long enough to grow...
...Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Work-Study Program, Adult Basic Education, Rural Loan Program, Migrant Worker Assistance, Employment and Investment Incentives, Work Experience Program, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and the Community Action Program, which set up Head Start, Upward Bound, Legal Services and Health Service Centers...
...They admitted that not the Red Guards but "the workers, peasants and soldiers were the main force" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in proletarian education. Worst of all, "Red Guards in many places expressed their determination to go to the rural areas, border areas, factories, mines and basic units in order to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants." That, in the current lexicon of China, is the Maoist version of exile to Siberia...
...Much of the success has been due to the doughty American, which Chairman Roy M. Chapin decided to promote as a competitor to small foreign imports. So far, sales are slightly ahead of the 1967 pace -not bad for a car whose basic design is four years old. Next year, as a five-year-old, about all it will get is a change in name, from American to Rambler. It will thus become the latest-and now the only-line to carry the name that won fame in the 1950s when A.M.C. was dueling successfully with what George Romney called...