Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Strom Thurmond has been stumping the South for Nixon but strangely neglecting South Carolina. Wallace, as a result, has edged ahead. Thurmond's own supporters are so concerned that a Wallace victory would damage the Senator's prestige that they have distributed bumper stickers pleading, HELP STROM, ELECT NIXON. But conservative South Carolinians are not inclined to help Strom, and Wallace is now ahead. In Florida, a vague desire to register a protest against both major parties has erased Nixon's earlier lead. His final campaign rally in Miami drew only a so-so crowd last...
...Quality of Life. How can the Government help Americans to become better educated, healthier, perhaps even happier...
...plenty of Americans who have decided not to vote at all in next month's presidential election - and lots of others who wish they did not feel that they have to. Across the Atlantic, however, there is a band of Dutchmen who would like nothing better than to help pick the next President of the U.S. Since they cannot, they have formed a group called Aktie (for Action) Precedent to try to influence U.S. votes...
...something of a star. He directed the 23-minute short, The World of Fashion, that preceded Flea on the program, and Geneviève was the film's only performer. That may not be much of a step up the movie ladder but with Darryl's help, who knows...
...Humiliations. As a substitute teacher in ghetto schools, Shanker was earning only $41 a week as late as 1952. Teachers, he claims, were too terrified of their autocratic supervisors to complain about poor pay and ill-treatment; to help them, he became a full-time U.F.T. organizer. "Part of the early motivation of the U.F.T.," he says, "was to punch the administrators in the nose for all the humiliations teachers had suffered...