Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Entry. As for the Democrats, they still seemed bent on tearing themselves apart. Last week their big-name hope, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., announced in Washington that he would not enter the New York mayoralty campaign, obviously because he had no desire to face a party primary fight. Of the other Democratic possibilities, none gave any sign of withdrawing. In fact, the race for the Democrats' September primary logged a fifth entry-City Comptroller Abraham Beame, 59. Declared the 5-ft. 2-in. Beame of the 6-ft. 3-in. Lind...
...Common Market circles, Charles de Gaulle's Non! is a more awesome instrument of policy than the force de frappe. Last week in Brussels, he used it again, precipitating yet another of the virtually twice-yearly crises by which France reminds the Six that some are more equal than others...
...British stooge. Their chief source of resentment is the Sheik's 800-man British-officered police force. When oil workers went on strike last March, the Sheik's tough cops cracked down hard, killing twelve and wounding 50, repressed Nasser-inspired student riots last month with equal severity. Opponents of Sheik Isa often end up in a mystery-shrouded prison on desolate Jidah Island. Over Baghdad radio last week, a political prisoner who had recently escaped from the island claimed that "thousands rot there in chains, and are thrown to the sharks when they grow weak...
Before passing the Civil Rights Act last June, Congress stipulated that Title VII-the Equal Employment Opportunity section, which forbids discrimination in hiring and firing-was not to become law before the nation had a twelve-month period to study it. Last week Title VII finally went into effect. Hopefully the yearlong study period will pay off, for the new law is one of the most complex collections of dos and don'ts passed by Congress in many a stormy session...
...young lawyer, Royall Tyler, met Abigail--or "Nabby," as her family called her -- in Braintree in 1782. Tyler was already known as something of a writer, and Mrs. Adams wrote her husband, "I am not acquainted with any young Gentleman whose attainments in literature are equal to his." Adams was far from taken with the idea of Tyler as a son-in-law. "I don't like the subject at all," he wrote back. "I am not looking out for a Poet, not a Professor of belle Letters... My Children will have nothing but their Liberty and the Right...