Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genuine draft was the only thing that could return him to contention. "Sure, Johnson's out," said a Rockefeller aide, "but that doesn't change our problem?the Republican Party. They don't want Rockefeller. It's as simple as that." In an effort to remedy the problem, a group of influential Republican moderates laid plans for the formation of a National Rockefeller for President Committee. Rocky gave the committee his quiet approval, but even so, unless he begins campaigning actively, it is questionable whether many party professionals will be eager to risk Nixon's revenge by supporting...
...obverse of Harry Truman's comment on April 13, 1945, the day after Franklin Roosevelt's death and his own swearing-in as President. "I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you," he told a group of reporters, "but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen...
...also captures the subtleties of racial and ethnic distinctions. He reported that a group of Negroes were picketing the revival of Gone With the Wind. Some were carrying signs protesting Hattie McDaniel's stereotyped portrayal of a colored nanny. Without any sense of contradiction, others were demanding that Hattie be given top billing alongside Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The only "safe formula" to avoid racial offense, Cooke discovered, was adopted by a New York progressive school, which staged The Merchant of Venice. "Every boy or girl in the cast was Jewish. Except Shylock. His real name was Cynthia...
...thrust and counterthrust took place at one of a series of group-therapy sessions designed to promote understanding between Houston's police and Negroes. The six-week programs have been going on since last September. On each of six consecutive Fri days, as many as 200 policemen, divided into groups of 12 to 15, meet with equal numbers of citizens-both black and white-to thrash out differences. The fourth batch is now attending the three-hour sessions, each of which is guided by a trained psychologist...
...high rate of suicide among college students has long been recognized as one of the more ominous statistics of higher education. Last week Harvard Psychiatrist Mathew Ross reported that the college-age group runs a 50% higher suicidal risk than nonstudents in a similar age group, and he scolded the American College of Physicians at its meeting in Boston for not doing more to prevent such deaths. Individuals contemplating suicide normally signal their intention, he said, and doctors must be alert to the message. The most common clues...