Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orville Freeman-"with 14 of the outstanding agriculturalists of America"-promise even more potential benefit than any victory of arms. He chafes because congressional committees have a "thousand questions" for military commanders but have yet to call in Freeman or Gardner. In all fairness, reasons Humphrey, Congress should accord equal time to the field marshals of the other war. "Let's learn something," he says...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 51, now chairman of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, longs for the job his father once had, but has not yet convinced party leaders that he is remotely equal to that opportunity...
...ruling comes in time for the spring primaries, and initially will have its most significant impact in Alabama, where thousands of Negroes registered under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have not paid the poll tax in anticipation of the court's ruling. Basing its decision on the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment, the court declared that wealth "has no relation to voting qualifications. The right to vote is too precious, too fundamental to be so burdened or conditioned...
...including Viet Nam combat. In the U.S. last year, 20 million cars were involved in 14 million accidents. They killed 49,000 people, injured 1,800,000 others, and permanently disabled 200,000. The economic cost: $8.1 billion in lost wages, property damage, medical and insurance payments-a sum equal to 10 for every mile driven, or 1.2% of the gross national product. Auto accidents are the biggest cause of death and injury among American children, teen-agers and adults under 35. Unless the rate is reduced, one out of every two living Americans will some day be injured...
With Negroes now enjoying virtually equal registration strength in ten black-belt counties, black candidates hope to win up to 30 primary contests. In a number of races, though, civil rights leaders prefer to manipulate the balance of power. One likely white beneficiary is Wilson Baker, Selma's public-safety director, who is challenging Dallas County's bullyboy sheriff, Jim Clark. Baker's restraint during last year's impassioned civil rights demonstrations may have also won him hefty non-Negro support. The reason: many Dallas County whites blame Clark's cattle-prodding tactics for dramatizing...