Word: employers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whoops-am afraid that TIME'S ever-diminishing pretenses to sophistication took yet another dip by way of its reviewer's baffling determination to employ ante-bellum terminology in his incoherent notation on the movie [Raisin in the Sun]. I don't have any idea what "Mammy" and "blackface" adjectives have to do with reviewing a motion picture, but save your copy; it is believed, in some quarters of the world, that the Herrenvolk may rise again...
...Administration was softening in its resolve to use nuclear weapons to defend Western Europe against a Russian attack with conventional forces. Adenauer knew that the new Administration wanted to build up NATO's conventional military forces and to raise the "threshold" at which the U.S. would employ nuclear weapons. He also knew that the Kennedy Administration was doubtful about previous plans to build up a new deterrent force of Polaris missile submarines, under the control of NATO rather than the U.S. -a proposal that Adenauer had endorsed...
...Saigon, Diem's total dropped to 65%, and 26% of the electorate joined the Communist boycott and stayed home. This reflected, among other things, the capital's widespread discontent among business and professional classes at the dictatorial methods Diem feels obliged to employ in his six-year-old fight against the Communist rebellion. But the very size of the opposition vote was evidence that the much abused Diem had run a reasonably honest election...
...part in getting the new Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to meet American demands for more multilateral aid. The U.S. plans to ask Japan and Western European nations to contribute an annual one per cent of their gross national products to overseas assistance. The OECD, which will employ the world's best planning minds, will react very rudely to the prospect of handling America's funds through the old and clumsy beast...
...Executive Office Building, thus giving Johnson a fourth office to add to his two in the Senate Office Building and one in the Capitol. Kennedy also added another job to Johnson's bulging portfolio, appointing him the head of the new President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a high-powered group which can influence the cancellation of Government contracts or the blacklisting of contractors who fail to employ-or train for employment-Negroes and other minority applicants...