Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following excerpts from the report are only a small fraction of the finished document. Most of the study's specific recommendations concerning university administration and organization have been eliminated...
Coming Closest. Over the past six years, Chicago's papers have suffered a combined daily circulation loss of 115,892. The Tribune's circulation has dropped more than 4% to 827,524. The News is down 14% to 464,221. The American has declined by a fraction to 443,761, though it has gained 9,605 since 1965. But in the past two years, the Sun-Times has forged ahead with an increase of 13,583, bringing its circulation to 548,162. Although both morning dailies are making money, it is estimated that the afternoon papers are losing...
...extremist firebrands. In the wretched Negro slums, the more moderate Negro leaders pack no clout with the young buckoes who toss Molotov cocktails and chant murderous antiwhite slogans. "A black man today," insists one Black Power advocate, "is either a radical or an Uncle Tom." In fact, only a fraction of America's 22 million Negroes falls into either category. What worries the moderates is that increasing numbers of ghetto dwellers seem more susceptible than ever to the "Burn, baby, burn!" appeal of the radicals. Whitney M. Young Jr., 46, executive director of the National Urban League and probably...
...night have demolished Courier cars; business managers have thrown up their hands at the Courier's book-keeping-by-memory system and stalked out of its two-room headquarters in a downtown Montgomery office building, never to return. But while steadily losing money (advertising and sales pay only a fraction of its $4,000-a-month budget; the rest comes from private donations and foundation grants), it has been making friends and influencing politics...
...this spring's Monterey Pop Festival. On King & Queen (Stax), he shares the throne with Carla Thomas. With rich growls and husky shouts Otis mixes jokes and blues, first down tempo, then up tempo, almost missing the beat and then catching it at precisely the right fraction of a second...