Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcome was surprising not only because of the April vote but also because two authoritative California polling firms, Don Muchmore's and Mervin Field's, found Bradley ahead into the last week. Field's final report gave Bradley a lead of five points, with Yorty gaining. Muchmore's sampling put Bradley 17 points ahead. Both surveys, however, indicated a large undecided vote. The trouble with any poll involving a Negro candidate, of course, is that many of those interviewed are reluctant to admit to racial prejudice. Some who succumbed to Yorty's argument and their...
...Called Altruism. Though it is still too soon to make final judgments, there may be other benefits as well. Police statistics for 1967, when the ban on books but not pictures had been lifted, showed a 25% decrease in the number of sexual crimes. Whether this was coincidental or had some relation to the relaxation of the laws, police are firmly convinced at least that no increase has resulted. Nor, so far as school officials can tell, has children's contact with obscene material increased. Rektor Ole Barfoed, headmaster of one of Copenhagen's largest grammar schools, says...
...Irish bones, he knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...
Liller would not estimate the proposal's chances for approval. "The final decision is up to Mr. Pusey and the Corporation," he said...
Experienced Truman-watchers here took the news as final proof that the 85-year-old ex-president will receive an honorary degree at Harvard's Commencement ceremonies on June...