Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal publicity as almost sinful. He makes a habit of not returning phone calls from the political provinces, and has exacerbated the estrangement of the national organization from state and local Democratic of ficials. Johnson once passed the word that the National Committee "isn't worth a damn except to raise funds." Under Criswell's regime, the party's $2,000,000 deficit from 1964 has been erased...
Disrupted Arithmetic. The Vice President's convention strength could be reckoned unbeatable, except that as many as 16 states face credentials challenges involving some 1,000 delegates-a record number in the party's history...
Only a few years ago, Dr. Smith would have had no hospital privileges, except in tumbledown quarters reserved for Negroes. For almost a century, "segregationists had a neatly effective exclusion device: hospital appointments were open only to members of the county medical societies. And the societies were exclusively white. For 29 years, the A.M.A. gently "urged" member groups to integrate, but few did. Smith was among the Negro doctors who embarrassed the A.M.A. by picketing its 1963 convention. The A.M.A. made its urgings a bit stronger. The Hinds County Medical Society was among those that yielded. It admitted Smith...
STRIKES by public employees make almost everyone unhappy except the strikers themselves-and sometimes even them. When sanitation men refuse to pick up garbage and teachers stay away from their classrooms, the resulting disruptions win little sympathy for their cause. As a result, workers who provide vital public services are turning increasingly to work slowdowns -strikes, of a sort, that do not carry quite the onus of a full-scale walkout. As Anthony D'Avanzo, general chairman of New York City Lodge 886 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, put it last week, "We don't want...
NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y.--Ours is not a romantic age, and so it's hardly surprising that, except for his green jump suit, Philip (Phil) McGuire with his broad face and fading hairline looked about as ordinary as any other of the dozen or so people sipping beer in a Long Island bar on a hot afternoon last week. Like them, he was relaxing from work, but his line of business was perhaps slightly more demanding than theirs. McGuire had just returned from two months of flying arms and food into the beleaguered African state of Biafra...