Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority have not been here long enough to weigh the full impact of living in a foreign city, cut off from the social fabric of America. The only other major expatriate movement that this country has witnessed began in the twenties with Malcolm Cowley and friends singing "Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" on the boat to Europe. They were back two years later no happier about the state of affairs in America but unable to live away from it. That avenue isn't open here...
...Government, however, did not agree to suffer this embarrassment. Few of the resisters have been arrested; most of them will be re-classified 1-A. Except for the trial of the "Boston Five," any moral confrontations the Resistance creates will occur within the resisters themselves. The situation exposes the central weakness of the Resistance as a political force: individuals do not control the consequences of their acts...
Last summer, the Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee voted down a similar pledge card, calling the proposal undemocratic. Citing the Wisconsin decision, McCarthy commented early this week that the card "comes further to denying the people their right to a secret ballot than anything in the national history...
Dedijer is a highly-respected academic with previous appointments at several British and American universities, including Harvard. His books include The Beloved Land and Yugoslav-Albanian Relations, which the U.S. government itself has republished. In 1954, he was expelled from Yugoslavia's Central Committee of Communists for his defense of free speech--and Rusk has now picked up the Central Committee's persecution...
Expenses for the combined railroads are not likely to fall quickly. The bill for consolidating track and freight yards will amount to millions. And the Penn Central has also promised a $25 million loan to the New Haven Railroad to bail out its money-losing passenger services until the merged roads include the New Haven in their system. But eventual savings from joint operations may reach $100 million a year. And additional revenue sources are being tapped. Last week Perlman announced that a lease agreement had been signed with a British investment group which plans to build an office building...