Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unaffected by civil rights," as McKissick puts it. Civil Rights has been, and remains, a middle-class movement whose purpose is to remove barriers to the advancement of "qualified" Negroes (in other words, those who are educated, upwardly mobile, and well-be-haved). Because the basic motif of equal opportunity is so strong in American society, the civil rights movement has been blessed with a set of easily identifiable enemies and simple issues: Jim Clark, "Freedom Now," and so forth...
...Objectivity. Of almost equal importance is the tyranny of advertisers. Though the newsmen, with good reason, proclaim their freedom, the sponsor's influence is still apparent. Commercials, the newsmen occasionally boast, are restricted to a small percentage of a news program's time, far less than the percentage of space given over to ads in successful newspapers. But it is also true that those commercials appear right in the middle of the electronic front page. Few newspapers give their advertisers such considerate treatment...
...ballot box and banned pay TV, ruled the state court, they violated the First Amendment right of free expression. When they toppled laws barring racial discrimination in the sale or rental of private housing, said the court, their vote amounted to discriminatory "state action" that violated the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Now the nation's top court must decide whether to review those decisions or let them stand...
...tequila and Kahlua) and the Blue Blazer (mulled brandy, Southern Comfort and water). Washingtonians are drinking a new depth charge called the Kraatz No. 1 Special, invented by Hawaiian Businessman Donald Kraatz. The recipe: pour an almost-full tumbler of Tanqueray's gin over ice, add minute but equal amounts of Schweppe's quinine water and Rose's lime juice...
...building a $157 million plant with Babcock & Wilcox reactors that will generate 1,664,000 kw.-enough for South Dakota, Vermont and Nevada. Commonwealth Edison is busy expanding its Dresden plant 50 miles southwest of Chicago into an 1,800,000-kw. complex capable of serving a population equal to that of Baltimore and San Francisco combined. As an increasing number of power companies do, Atlantic City Electric, Philadelphia Electric, Delmarva Power & Light, and Public Service Electric & Gas Co. recently teamed up to order two 1,100,000-kw. plants for a southern New Jersey site. Though nuclear power today...