Word: civilizations
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Baker has politics bred into his bones. Born in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee, a pocket of Republicanism since the Civil War, he is the third generation of his family to go into politics. (His grandmother succeeded her husband as sheriff; his stepmother followed his father into Congress.) After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law, he became a spellbinding courtroom attorney. Following an unsuccessful attempt in 1964, Baker was elected to the Senate two years later. He demonstrated his independence by opposing his own father-in-law, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, on Dirksen's effort...
...turned down by the Brandeis administration for what I can only believe to be political reasons," Richard A. Cloward, professor of social work at Columbia University, said yesterday. Cloward said he has always been "on the left" and is involved in the civil rights movement...
...years have passed since this country experienced the progressive shot in the arm which has come to be termed the "Late Sixties." Many movements arose (and subsequently declined) during that era, but one movement which rose up on the crest of the Civil Rights Movement continues to push forward, and remarkably has kept all of its original principles intact. The United Farm Workers' (UFW) Union, led by Cesar Chavez, has weathered 17 years of struggle with California agribusiness and since 1962, has become a viable instrument in representing and protecting farm labor...
While we regret the violent murder of President Park Chung Hee of South Korea, we welcome the end of his rule, a dictatorship of the worst stripe marked by ruthless suppression of political opposition and civil rights. The end of Park's reign marks the first real chance for the liberalization of the Korean government since then-General Park seized power in the early...
...references to Halberstam and indigenous civil wars in Asia aside, Harvard coach Joe Restic voiced even stronger feelings. "I don't think games should be played under these conditions," he said. "It's unfair to those who are playing and it's unfair to the fans...