Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETULA CLARK: THE WORLD'S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL HITS (Warner). The Downtown darling of the younger generation smoothly shifts gears and heads uptown, where the ballad lovers live, picking her wistful way through ethnic pop favorites like Volare, Girl From Ipanerna and Never on Sunday. The beat is still tricky enough to please the youngsters, although they might balk at her slow version of Britain's second national anthem- I Want to Hold Your Hand...
...city levels. Put simply, the voter seemed more concerned than ever with practical results rather than partisan victories, with the contents of the package rather than the label. In races vital to the welfare of their own communities, voters not only crossed party lines but also freely ignored ethnic, religious and economic distinctions to support appealing and constructive candidates...
Pitchman & Lion. Along the Eastern seaboard, Rheingold beer, once notorious for a stupefying parade of look-alike Miss Rheingolds, has switched to a vigorous ethnic pitch. Its commercials now show Negroes, Jews, Greeks, Irish and other minority groups enjoying themselves at parties, quaffing beer when they get too tired to dance. Rheingold then shrugs at its new-found success with its now famous tag line: "We must be doing something right...
...most rock-ribbed Republican part of the nation. A map of even the 1936 Presidential election shows one big Republican swath from Buffalo to Bangor. But Upstate has changed since the '30's. Its proportion of Irish, Italian, and Polish Catholics has been rising, and these are just the ethnic groups that have been the backbone of Democratic surges since 1950 in states like Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Michigan--states that were predominantly Republican...
...whites in Kenya, and they are by their own testimony happier than they were before uhuru. From the four Kenya races-African, Asian, European and Arab-Jomo Kenyatta has forged the closest thing to a united nation that can be found in black Africa. More important, the four African ethnic groups -Bantu, Nilotic, Nilot-Hamitic and the Hamites-are in greater harmony now than ever before, much to the relief of whites and Asians who might otherwise feel their random wrath...