Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Without Honor. Philadelphia Congressman William Green, at 29 youngest member of the House and youngest political boss in the U.S., walked through his Fifth District to sample opinion among its many ethnic groups. Green, whose father, the late Representative Bill Green, ran the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee before him, said he found "a hunger for peace in Viet Nam." Yet virtually none of his constituents favored U.S. withdrawal, and many complained that Johnson had not acted firmly enough in seeking return of the Pueblo...
...example, it is common knowledge that Harvard could accept an entire class, all of whose members achieved SAT scores above 700. But Harvard wants diversity and accepts those with lower scores. The same applies to geographic distribution, social class, ethnic background, wonks vs. jocks; Harvard consciously attempts to achieve a diverse student body...
...five, Vellucci was in the tightest spot. He was voting to fire a fellow Italian-American, in a city where ethnic ties can still swing a lot of votes. Accordingly, he returned to a tried and true theme: "Save DeGug, save DeGug--how can I save DeGug when I'm trying to save a hospital for the mothers of Cambridge," he roared, recounting how he had tried to have the City's maternity ward moved to the seventh floor of the new City hospital which, he said, DeGuglielmo let Harvard have for "experiments on dogs,...cats...and monkeys...
...blond, becomes the youngest national party chief in Eastern Europe. Largely educated in the Soviet Union, to which his father had migrated a few years after a brief, unhappy stay in the U.S., Dubček was an anti-Nazi partisan during World War II. Since Czechs and ethnic balances are still essential in Czechoslovakia's ruling circles, Premier Jozef Lenárt, another Slovak, will probably be pushed aside for Chief Economic Planner Oldřich Cernik, 44, a Czech who had been generally considered the front runner for Novotn...
...units will handle "communications and complaints" between the city departments and the residents of Boston's distinctive ethnic and racial communities, Huntington said...