Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential conflict is over how sharply the goals of the peace drive should be focused and how broad a following it should seek. The Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, which organized the Oct. 15 demonstrations, is led mainly by politically oriented moderates and liberals. Created quickly on the strength of a novel idea, it seeks the broadest possible enlistment of public opinion to persuade Congress and the President that U.S. involvement in the war must be ended promptly. Its emphasis is upon campus and community activity to get much of middle America personally involved...
Sexy Washington. Those differences posed no real problem until the two groups began to wonder whether the Mobilization's November marches would conflict with the simultaneous two-day Moratorium demonstrations of Nov. 13 and 14. Moratorium leaders were not eager to dilute local activities by encouraging demonstrators to go to Washington. They also feared that a chaotic Washington protest would taint the whole peace movement and drive moderates...
...have agreed that the outcome would hinge on Lindsay's ability to win back Jewish voters, who constitute the largest single bloc in the electorate. Jews were alienated by Lindsay's backing of a school-decentralization plan that led to last year's school strike and conflict between blacks and the predominantly Jewish teachers union. And, like other middle-class whites, they felt neglected by city hall. In a major fence-mending effort, Lindsay stepped up city services, particularly in the police and sanitation fields...
...Jacqueline Susann's peekaboo novel The Love Machine, which focuses on wide-screen sex and power conflict in the television world, the anti-hero is Robin Stone, who advances to a top network job over the prostrate bodies of rivals and girls. Inevitably, show business insiders recognized in Stone at least a passing resemblance to James T. Aubrey Jr., 51. As president of CBS-TV for more than five years, Aubrey ruled with a high hand and a low common denominator of programming (The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction) that for most of that time won CBS leadership...
BUILDING CODES. They often perpetuate make-work practices, waste, and the use of yesterday's materials and methods. U.S. communities operate under at least 8,300 different building codes; the provisions often conflict, making it impossible to standardize such items as the type of wiring, piping and plumbing. This not only inhibits architects and engineers from developing cost-cutting innovations (for lack of a big enough market), but often prevents builders from reaping the economies of standardized plans and production. Few other big industrial countries permit such a senseless riot of diversity. Code uniformity has helped Western Europe...