Word: either
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opponents. In television debates, he easily outclassed Procaccino, the early favorite in the campaign. The mayor was able to attract the active support of liberal elements of both major parties. In the end, many Jews found that, despite their earlier hostility to Lindsay, they could not vote for either the academically conservative Marchi or the bellicose, volatile Procaccino...
...Democratic weakness. Many conservative Democrats could not forgive Battle his ties with the Kennedys. The state A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Crusade for Voters, a black political-action group, could not abide Battle's support by the lingering vestiges of the Byrd organization. Many liberals with no love for either Nixon or Holton wanted most of all to exercise the old Democratic guard completely and start fresh. The combination handily managed to put Holton over...
Once the U.S. and Soviets arrive at a joint proposal, they will present it to France and Britain. But even if the Big Four can finally reach accord on a peace plan, there is no guarantee that either the Arabs or the Israelis will accept...
Athens is a living memory of the Western world. Its great militaristic rival, Sparta, is all but forgotten as a center of human culture-and with reason. It is hard to classify as great a city that limits human contact, either through political repression, like Moscow, or through distance, like Los Angeles. It is also hard to imagine a city that is great only during the day. If too many of its occupants retreat to the suburbs to eat and sleep each evening, the place is, in fact, not so much a city as a collection of buildings-the unhappy...
...quite make the first rank of cities today, if only because Milan-cold but confident-controls too much of Italy's wealth and industrial power. The U.S., which is rich in both money and people, ought to be able to support two great cities, perhaps one on either coast, but it does not. A half-century ago, San Francisco looked as if it might become the great city of the West. Instead, it has remained a charming, eccentric and physically beguiling minor metropolis. Los Angeles, in the unlikely event that it ever should overcome its centrifugal forces...