Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest imponderable-apart from the enigma of Wallace-is the extent to which Southern voting patterns will be affected by the region's fast-changing social, economic and political structure. In both parties there have been some encouraging signs of moderation and modernization, but the turmoil that Wallace is capable of fomenting could destroy this progress. The self-described "spoiler" could also delay the Southern Negro's entry into mainstream politics. By 1968, Negro voter registration in the eleven states of the old Confederacy may exceed 3,250,000, more than double the 1960 figure. Though the actual...
Despite their pleas for "friendly relations," their relationship is very swiftly--and unfortunately--degenerating into one of competition and back-biting, rather than cooperation. This friction is to some extent the result of temporary misunderstandings and mistrust. But it will become more extensive--and more detrimental--unless both sides recognize their common ground...
...only funny lines occur in Woody Allen's and, to a much lesser extent, Peter Seller's scenes. About to be shot down by a firing squad, Allen--as Sir James Bond's nephew Jimmy Bond--protests, "I have a low threshold of death." Sellers, being fitted for a spy outfit, is asked, "Which side do you dress?" and he answers, "Away from the window, usually." But since the scenes without these two are so repulsively unfunny, one is led to believe both Sellers and Allen did a good lot of improvising. Particularly Allen, whose entire performance resembles...
...grounds: it was based on flimsy evidence of damage to the eyes and bladders of laboratory animals when DMSO was used in massive, nonmedical doses; and it was so sweeping that it halted fact finding by even the most cautious medical researchers. Dr. Goddard relented only to the extent of allowing continued use on 50 patients who had benefited from nothing else...
King, then, did not in any way "launch" Vietnam Summer at his press conference in Cambridge on April 22. He was not there at its genesis, and he is still not involved in any of the project's programs. Officially, he is a "sponsor," but the extent of his personal participation is yet to be determined and will probably be slight. However, he does make headlines -- perhaps one too many...