Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western audiences, unlike those in the rest of the country, seemed neither outraged nor converted by Wallace's standard spiel-just bored. Perhaps it is because the racial and ethnic abrasions that Wallace feeds on elsewhere are less important in the more fluid and open society of the West. The people who live there have no difficulty voting for conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, or voting against open-housing measures. But many seem to find it difficult to accept Wallace's radicalism, with its unabashed divisions between "them" and "us." At any rate, Wallace, the master...
...heart of his operation is a small, windowless office known as "the war room." Its walls are plastered with charts and maps that trace every move by the candidates. One chart focuses on ethnic groups and their numerical strength in 17 pivotal states. One map goes so far as to try to show the location of troubles that have yet to occur. When violence flared briefly at Columbia University last month, Nixon headquarters quickly received intelligence reports that similar disturbances were planned at colleges across the nation. The reports, naturally, went right onto the futures...
...campaign day seemed to fit the expected loathsome pattern. Nixon had cancelled plans for a public rally on the Common; instead of bothering with the hecklers, he would give a pep talk to campaign workers inside the snug Somerset hotel, and then answer questions from a careful ethnic mix of six New England citizens...
...Ronald Hoppe and his wife Sally, hard work has always been a way of life. Growing up in Old Town, Chicago's tough ethnic crucible, Ron learned the Protestant virtues from his sea-captain father, an immigrant from Denmark; he learned to cram pennies into jars and projects into leisure time. By driving his Royal Crown Cola truck long hours, sometimes from 7 in the morning to as late as 10 at night, Ron earns $17,700 a year in wages and commissions and has bought his family the $27,000, two-story house that they share with...
...enrollment, Hester tried to placate the critics. He got former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and Federal Judge Constance Baker Motley, N.Y.U.'s first Negro trustee, to review the case, and they endorsed his decision to retain Hatchett. Hester insisted that Hatchett was "not prejudiced against Jews as an ethnic group" but was attacking the educational Establishment of the schools-an argument that Jewish groups thought too ingenuous...