Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national malaise poses a civic puzzle: Are Americans obliged to vote, even for candidates they dislike? Purists have sometimes overstated a yes answer. Dictatorships often force people to vote for handpicked candidates and then proudly proclaim that participation hit 95% or more. By contrast, the U.S. right to vote carries with it a right not to vote, to register a negative protest, and most Americans would balk at hav ing it any other way. Even so, they sometimes forget that people the world over have often died fighting for even the crudest kind of franchise. Well aware of that struggle...
...because it was too little, but because the firemen would be getting as much. The policemen protested that they should receive more because of the greater hazards of the job. Renewing an old status rivalry, the firemen declared that they would accept not a penny less. The garbagemen, by contrast, have accepted their contract. Some other city unions urged the Mayor to hold tight, saying they would have to reopen their contracts if the police received an added sweetener. And 40,000 more public service employees threatened to strike for equal treatment when their contracts expire in December...
...poll results contrast sharply with the 1960 CRIMSON university-wide poll, in which Nixon received 39 per cent of the votes--30 per cent more than this year, while John F. Kennedy '40 got 56 per cent. In 1960 only five per cent did not choose major party candidates, while this year that figure has risen to about 25 per cent. 1960 was the first year in memory that a Democrat received an absolute majority in the poll...
...speaking engagements at other colleges, he laid over in Boston between flights, before returning to Atlanta. He was anxious to get home to his wife and four children and to talk with his colleagues about a black caucus of southern politicians coming up. Bond's seriousness is in sharp contrast to his youthful appearance. He talks about the South as if it is his family; and with a conviction and familiarity not in keeping with...
Republican charges about "mismanagement" of the Pentagon are misleading, but they appeal to voters for several reasons. Nixon stands in sharp contrast to Hubert Humphrey, who has emphatically stated that the United States has enough nuclear weapons. Humphrey's problem is that he seems willing to let the Russians catch up with, or possibly overtake, the United States. Such a position tends to worry most voters. And Nixon's concern about arms-control talks--that they should be negotiated "from strength and never from weakness"--seems more prudent than Humphrey's enthusiastic endorsement of arms negotiations...