Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student dissent reads like the latest assignment sheet for TIME news bureaus. Correspondents from San Francisco to Boston were busy interviewing university presidents, faculty and students as they gathered material for this week's cover story on the Harvard eruption and the crisis of U.S. universities in general...
...good side is clearly visible. Last week the Administration scraped together $200 million in special aid to help rebuild areas damaged by riots. Despite fears that John Mitchell, the seemingly conservative Attorney General, would go slow on civil rights, he has moved the Justice Department vigorously into new areas. Last February the department went to court to force Houston to push integration more effectively in the South's biggest school district; last month it filed suit in Chicago to stop real estate operators from selling property at higher rates to Negroes than to whites...
...lines, the bombing created a spirit of defiance. But, as the theory goes, without the unifying goad of bombs, the hard-pressed peasants now have the leisure to reflect on their privations. As evidence, the monitors of Hanoi's newspapers and broadcasts report frequent condemnation of apathy and general slackness. There is also the tremendous death toll on the battlefield. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, Vo Nguyen Giap, was asked if the American claim that he had "lost a half a million men" was correct. "That's quite...
Pesticide poisoning has become a new issue in the four-year California grape pickers strike. Face swollen and complaining of dizziness and shortness of breath, a woman told the general counsel of the United Farm Workers, Jerome Cohen, that she had been drenched by wind-blown pesticides while working in a field. Other pickers have reported becoming sick after exposure to parathion and DDT. Cohen asked the Kern County agricultural commissioner for permission to see permits for pesticide spraying, which are required by California law. But before he could look at the records, three spraying companies obtained a court order...
...position. Other points in the plan stipulated that Israel must return all territory, including the Arab sector of Jerusalem, conquered in the 1967 war. This Israel is not prepared to do without a genuine settlement negotiated directly with the Arabs. "If the Jordanians have a constructive plan," said Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gideon Rafael, "let them bring it to the table." The Israelis believe that any recommendations by the Big Four are likely to demand more from them than from the Arabs, and thus they have opposed the talks, which continued last week in New York...