Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campaign workers grumble at Bobby's battering-ram methods ("Little Brother Is Watching" is a sub rosa slogan at San Francisco's Kennedy headquarters), but they work as hard as they complain. Says Bobby's father, Joe Kennedy: "Ruthless? As a person who has had the term applied to him for 50 years, I know a bit about it. Anybody who is controversial is called ruthless. Any man of action is always called ruthless. It's ridiculous." Bobby, says his father, is just dedicated: "Jack works as hard as any mortal man can. Bobby goes...
...that the Conference has failed, explained, "we have gone to the to complain of the Russians...
...They found themselves forced to submit to political indoctrination, forbidden to band together in their own African student associations "like Africans have at universities everywhere." They were watched wherever they went by young Russian Komsomols, who even shared their dormitory quarters. Their big trouble started when they tried to complain of Russian racism. Their Communist sponsors were incensed when they reported that a young Somali student was beaten unconscious last May when he asked a Russian girl to dance with him. Soviet authorities even called a meeting to persuade African students to deny the story. When Ayih not only refused...
...city, de facto segregation results from slum housing, racial ghettos and rigid school zoning laws. In New York City, where three-quarters of Manhattan's public-school pupils are now Negro and Puerto Rican, the concentration of them in some schools is as high as 100%. Negro parents complain that such schools are educationally inferior. Demanding a chance to send their children to more racially mixed schools, many of them were prepared to keep their kids at home next week in "sit-out" boycotts...
...reason for the squeeze, complain businessmen, is that the cost of labor, materials and services has risen, while increased competition at home and abroad prevents rises in prices. Says Mark V. Keeler, vice president of International Harvester Co.: "We just can't increase prices as fast as costs." Adding to the burden is a buildup of inventories early this year that have not been absorbed as quickly as expected. The squeeze has put its greatest pressure on such volatile industries as steel (profits 29% below 1959's first half), aluminum, railroads, farm equipment and autos...