Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwyn raised their children that "he decided to bring his own up that way." In turn, Keating complained about Bobby's "constant talk about the Jewish vote, the Italian vote, the this-that-or-the-other vote. I don't believe there is such a thing as bloc voting in this state." Not much. Keating has a 50-acre forest in Israel named after him, and he is the darling of the Italian-Americans for proposing to make Columbus Day a national holiday...
...most extreme and most dangerous elements in Communist movements around the globe. It would alienate from our side many sincere and devoted non-Communists. And, misreading the nature of the Sino-Soviet rift, it would spell an end to the hopeful but precarious growth of diversity in the Soviet bloc," the advertisement charged...
...whole thing was "obviously political," demanded a trial before Election Day. Instantly, there was speculation about how his indictment might affect contests for state offices. Both gubernatorial candidates -Republican John Volpe and Democrat Francis X. Bellotti-are Italian-Americans, and thereby are presumably equally immune (or susceptible) to any bloc-vote protest. But there is to be a referendum on Nov. 3 on whether to curtail the powers of the Governor's Council-specifically abolishing its right to approve gubernatorial appointments. Volpe has favored it all along, while Bellotti is on record against curbing the council...
Would the powerful Italian bloc now rise against him and ruin his chances? Brooke's campaign managers were unworried, pointed out that he already has an enormous lead and added, almost as an afterthought, that Brooke's wife is a native of Italy anyway...
Despite this ambitious bill of particulars, the nonaligned really agree on few major issues. What began under Nehru's leadership in Belgrade as a noninvolved bloc between the two superpowers has disintegrated because of the march of events. At most, what they have in common today is a ritualistic opposition to "imperialism," shrewdly mixed with a desire to profit from all sides in the cold war to further their own nationalism...