Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summer School's Health Career Summer Program sounds like a liberal's dream. It is designed, according to its official prospectus, to prepare "ethnic minority college students who are interested in medicine and dentistry as careers and are disadvantaged in their pursuit of these careers." The 150-odd students in the program each year are all on full scholarship, getting free room, board and tuition and a $500 stipend in lieu of the money they would otherwise be earning in summer jobs. Most of the program's graduates end up in med school...
...known for almost 15 years. But for the story there was still plenty for MacNeil to learn. He spent nine days in Boston and Cambridge, talking with O'Neill's wife, children, sister, friends and aides. Early one morning he accompanied the Congressman on one of his "ethnic walks" as he stopped and chatted with the shopkeepers through whom he keeps in touch with his district. "O'Neill doesn't pull any punches," says MacNeil. "When you ask him a question, he gives you a straight answer...
Recently TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil followed Congressman O'Neill as he took what he calls his "ethnic walk" through home-town Cambridge, sampling opinion while simultaneously wooing votes. As he has every Saturday for years, he stopped at his Chinese laundryman's to pick up the shirts that his wife Millie had left earlier in the week, visited his Italian shoemaker, his barber, and half a dozen other shopkeepers...
Beame has not had much better luck in filling one of his city's three deputy mayor posts. During his campaign, Beame repeatedly noted that the forces holding New York's ethnic and religious groups together were far stronger than those dividing them. To add more cement, he promised to name a black-the first to hold so high a post-as deputy mayor for planning. Shortly after his election, Beame selected David N. Dinkins, 46, a Harlem lawyer who had served with distinction as the city's election board president in 1972-73. Five weeks later...
Because of Radcliffe's January 26 application deadline, final figures on this year's applications will not be compiled for at least another week. Although the Radcliffe admissions committee has an idea of the overall number of applicants, the geographic and ethnic distribution of this year's prospective students still cannot be determined, Arthurs said...