Word: cdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbolizing this new unity was the California Democratic Council, established at Fresno in 1953. The CDC -- an association of volunteer, issue-oriented young professional people -- provided door-bell-pushers and envelope-stuffers to any Democrat who needed help...
...more importantly, the CDC issued pre-primary endorsements (which county and state party committees are forbidden to do), hoping to end the self-destructive internecine warfare of the previous decades. It was thought that candidates defeated at the CDC convention would quietly withdraw from the primary and for the party...
This year was really the end of this fairly-tale adventure in participatory democracy. In a roaring dispute over the anti-Vietnam war views of CDC president Simon Casady, Brown managed to alienate a good many members of the organization at its Bakers-field convention...
...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...
What got Taller into trouble with the law was that first printings of the book included an endorsement of a specific manufacturer of safflower oil (CDC capsules), and copies of the book were used to pro mote the capsules. (They are now off the market, following FDA action.) In court proceedings. Dr. Taller refused to answer more than 50 questions about his financial relationship with the corporation that manufactured the capsules...