Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, says that he is attracted to the Extension School because it offers a "broader intellectual and social experience than that associated with being an academic." Kilson, who is offering "Ethnic Politics in America" in his twelfth year of extension instruction, says that he is "hooked" on teaching extension courses because the "far more variegated background" of the school's students "brings an added dimension to discussions...
...former Democratic National Chairman John Bailey and a product of one of the nation's best-oiled political machines, she served as secretary of state for twelve years and was twice elected to Congress. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she belongs to the state's largest ethnic group. Her husband Tom, a retired principal, is also an Italian American. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Mount Hoiyoke, Grasso speaks the language of the classroom as easily as she does the Piedmont dialect of Italy on the front porch...
...many unsettling details mottle Caramanlis's political career. In 1959, he affirmed a characteristic policy of capitulation by concluding the Zurich agreement establishing conditional independence for Cyprus, to the disadvantage of the ethnic Greeks--an agreement that contributed to the current Cyprus tragedy. During his eight years in power in the 1950s and early sixties, he cooperated with the Palace and CIA to maintain a repressive, albeit economically successful, regime by saturating the army and police forces with members of the extreme right. Documents indicate that he won the election of 1961 by fraud and intimidation; shortly afterwards...
...Holt amendment provides that federal funds be withheld from school systems that classify, assign or their teachers or students by ethnic standards. During debate on the amendment, Rep. Bella S. Abzug (D.--N.Y.) and others attacked the rider for not defining "school system." Without further working, the bill could be interpreted so as to make Title IX and other affirmative action programs that relate to colleges illegal, Abzug said...
...newspaper advertisement for Scholarship Search, a Manhattan-based firm that uses a computer to match students with available scholarships. Like some 10,000 other students who applied to the company last year, he paid a $25 fee and filled out a form requesting information about his race, religion, ethnic background and special interests. The data was fed into an IBM System/360 computer crammed with information about 250,000 possible sources of financial aid-from corporations, unions, colleges and other public and private organizations-totaling $500 million. For Cole, the computer delivered an individualized printout listing 24 potential scholarships; he wrote...