Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past summer. In Cleveland the byword was "Cool it for Carl." The more moderate majority of Negroes, who all too often in the past have been too apathetic, fearful or despairing to use the ballot as an effective weapon, this time showed rare cohesion and voted their interests. If bloc voting wins no seal of approval in civics texts, it has been the device by which every ethnic group in American history has exerted and earned its political muscle...
...home, Big Jim threw his wholehearted support behind Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo's tough antiriot policies, thus winning the support of Philadelphia's working-class Italian population. Since the city suffered no riots last summer, Tate also kept a grip on the predominantly Democratic Negro voting bloc, 226,000 strong. Many of Philly's Negroes are city employees who appreciate Tate's generous salary boosts and pensions...
...however, it seems likely that efficiency gains would lead more to increases in our already formidable arsenal than to the reallocation of resources into applications yielding greater social benefits. An efficiency-induced increase in U.S. military strength would in turn, if recent history can be extrapolated, spur the Soviet bloc to intensified efforts in forging new and more powerful countervailing weapons...
...Quality of Russian Life It has become a Western cliche to say that the Russians are better off today than ever before. Yet, despite its industrial muscle, Russia generally lags behind not only the Western European countries but also behind most of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe in the quality and variety of the goods-and the divertissements-that it offers its people. Marx foresaw a turning point in the evolution of socialism when quantity of output would be transmuted into quality. Like so many other of his predictions, that has not come to pass...
...endorsed councillors were joined by three independents: Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., Bernard Goldberg, and William G. Maher. The only real point of agreement among the five is their support of DeGuglielmo, and a consequent opposition to the minority bloc on the Council...