Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rune stones. George Gallup has erred in his election polls by only 1.5% since 1954. Yet last week, Gallup and Louis Harris published such divergent interpretations of the preconvention G.O.P. standings that Gallup's son and partner, George Jr., admitted that the psephologists were facing "a credibility-gap problem...
...machine, Unruh has shed 90 lbs. since he fell in love with dissent; he now chairs the 172-member delegation that won a three-cornered primary contest in support of Robert Kennedy against groups committed to McCarthy and to Humphrey. Unruh is uncommitted and angry. Through cigar smoke: "The gap between political leadership and the people is widening at the very time it ought to be narrowing . . . We're not going to the convention simply to validate decisions someone else has made in some back room in Washington...
...lower-class pocketbooks." Is this a reason why we can't live together? I tend to say yes, especially when part of this reason is White oriented. But even this isn't completely true, because some Black men have middle-class values and pocketbooks and still there is that gap between White and Black. Many White "Do Gooders" try to appease the Black man and fill this gap with what the old black schools of thought call "Tokenism," "Gradualism," and "See How Far You've Comeism...
Third-world delegates also had a large hand in shaping the council's statement on world economic and social devel opment, which underscored the gap between rich and poor nations. The document declared that it was the "duty" of churches in industrialized nations to influence their governments on behalf of increases in foreign aid and trade agreements favoring underdeveloped lands. One proposal that is likely to get lukewarm response was that individual Christians, through voluntary donations, give a percentage of their own income to development aid, making up the difference between what their governments spend on this cause...
...miles above the equator, communications satellites are relaying TV pictures and telephone calls between the continents. The movie, the books and the satellites all have something in common: they are the brainchildren of Arthur C. Clarke, a tall, springy and remarkably imaginative Englishman whose writing bridges the gap between the far reaches of science fiction and the intricate realities of scientific fact...