Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This "other war" has been ardently espoused by the President in the past. Yet most Americans have been left surprisingly uninformed of its successes: the dozens of 59-man teams now fanning out into the countryside to rebuild it; the new schools and clinics that have sprouted in the Delta; the hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese treated by U.S. military medical teams; and the Allies' slow but steady attempts to create a political infrastructure in the villages and provinces. Moreover, for all the gloomy headlines, the political situation is not without hope, and the Sept. 11 elections...
...half an hour the formation held tight for the clicking shutters. Then, in an unobserved second, Walker's Starfighter evidently plowed into the right side of the Valkyrie's delta wing, rolled leftward across its top, damaging the B-70's tall, right vertical stabilizer and snapping off the left one. Over the intercom to ground control crackled Cotton's voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone...
...lengthened and tapered, and passenger compartments will be moved back toward the rear wheels. "We're certainly not styling cars to rendezvous in space," says Ford Styling Director Eugene Bordinat, "but to many people this mass in the rear-a kind of capsule look-suggests the triangular or delta look of spacecraft...
...burden of attack on the Delta Ministry has been that its 27 energetic, aggressive lay and clerical staff members, by ardently siding with Mississippi's Negro poor, tended to set them against other segments of society rather than reconcile the factions. Laudably, the Ministry helped set up preschool training centers under Project Head Start, badgered reluctant state officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville...
Uncle Toms. Mississippi critics of the Ministry include both white and Negro moderates. N.A.A.C.P. leaders in Mississippi charge that the Ministry has in effect created class warfare among Negroes by constantly accusing middle-class blacks of being "Uncle Toms." Negroes who refuse to support Delta Ministry projects all the way are arbitrarily ostracized...