Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henceforth, Wilson decreed, patrols must be mixed to reflect Chicago's own -diverse ethnic makeup, pairing as best as possible the traditional Irish and Italian cops with Negroes, Puerto Ricans and Latin Americans. The dogs, Wilson indicated with refreshing candor, had been a mistake and in all probability would not be used again to head off riots. City hall, rather belatedly, took note of the tensions along Division Street and promised a conference to discuss Puerto Rican problems...
...than does any other nation, with the possible exception of the Soviet Union." Probably Sinologists in America have collected more facts about the physical aspects of China than have Sinologists elsewhere. But Chinese national psychology is far more important than any other factor in understanding the Chinese and other ethnic groups in Asia. China's perverted national psychology-anxiety to prove the myth of "center of the world," suspicion against the former "imperialists," and frustration at having been an underdog-cannot be easily understood or readily compensated for by those who have never had a similar experience...
Malaria & Anemia. Newer, and far more mysterious, is a set of disease reactions that doctors describe as "pharmacogenetic." In these cases a drug may have no detectable harmful effect upon the vast majority of members of one ethnic group; yet because of a hereditary quirk, some individuals will be made gravely ill. Best example, said Dr. Moser, is the tendency-rare in the general U.S. population-to a blood-destroying anemia that can develop after taking aspirin or phenacetin (compounded together in the familiar APC tablets), some sulfonamides, and drugs for the relief of peptic ulcer...
Born. To Anthony Quinn, 50, cinema's leading man of many ethnic parts (Attila the Hun, Zorba the Greek), and lolanda Addolori, 31, his Venice-born second wife of four months: their third child, third son; in Rome...
...hear the sounds of a furious battle, while watching a column of grinning soldiers march casually across a bridge. Worst of all, the film makes no attempt to give the audience the historical or immediate background of what he sees. The war is treated as a natural or ethnic phenomenon, like plagues and Buddhist parades. "Atrocity begets atrocity," drones the narrator, "and every day the war increases in size...