Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POLITICS. The advances have been enormous: the potential is even bigger. The number of Negroes running for elective office has risen 25% to 30% in the Democratic Party over the past two years alone. This autumn, a record 210 Negroes of both parties are trying for seats in state legislatures, and hundreds more for other local offices. The number of Negroes in the U.S. Congress has risen from two in 1954 to six now; altogether, 17 are running for Congress this fall (eleven Republicans and six Democrats). Massachusetts' Republican Attorney General Edward Brooke is the first Negro since Reconstruction...
...been proclaimed the Messiah (by one Mrs. Annie Besant), but refused to play the role out of humility. Perched on one side of his chair, his legs glued together at the knees and the ankles, he looked as if he were squeezing over to make room for a bigger man. Definitely monk material, I decided...
...Maryland court, but they also give religious organizations the equivalent of indirect government grants. Even so, the court insisted, such "grants" do not violate the establishment clause because their prime purpose is secular rather than sectarian. While religious organizations get a tax break, the general public gets an even bigger break through such church activities as aid to the poor and aged, day nurseries, care of the sick, and efforts to eliminate racial inequalities. Said the Maryland decision: "The performance of these functions by private agencies saves the state the expense of providing the same services...
...perhaps the major military operation of the summer in Viet Nam. Airlifted from the east coast almost to the Cambodian border in less than twelve hours, the 1st Air Cav proceeded to rout the enemy in a battle "larger than San Juan Hill and El Caney combined, bigger and more impressive than Pork Chop Hill, bloodier than Cantigny, and lasting as long as Belleau Wood."* Yet that fight, Marshall notes incredulously in the current New Leader, did not rate a single lead headline in any U.S. newspaper...
Courtesy of Dialogue. Considering the fact that Berkeley and U.C.L.A. are part of the same university, why did the Free Speech riots not spread south to Westwood? One reason, answers Murphy, is that Berkeley has traditionally had a bigger share of student activists than U.C.L.A., and thus far more troublemaking "nonstudent hangers-on in the periphery." But Murphy is critical of the way in which Cal's administrators mishandled the disorders. "You can't substitute memos and bulletins for the courtesy of a dialogue and an explanation," he says. To preserve U.C.L.A.'s record of relative stability...