Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oregon primary voters were worried about education, public works and inflation-and Nixon quickly stressed those issues. Pollster John F. Kraft warned Robert Kennedy before the Indiana primary that he had the Negro vote sewed up but faced trouble from blue-collar whites; Kennedy shifted his campaign emphasis from help for the poor to law and order...
...instincts about 75% of the time, but a sound poll will give him a correct reading 90% of the time. That makes a 10% margin of error-and there is no guarantee that, in fact, the margin is not apt to be much larger. Thus the powerful polls can help democracy triumph, or at least muddle through-as long as the politicians and the public remember the margin of error and refuse to be hypnotized by the augurs...
Quarrels Over Responsibility. With the approval of the city's board of education and the help of a $59,000 planning grant from the Ford Foundation, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment was set up last summer. Local parents elected a committee to run the eight schools in the project and were given power to select principals, allocate funds, and set educational goals and standards. The city board of education supposedly retained only the supervisory authority, but from the start, there were quarrels over divisions of responsibility. School-board officers feared that the committee had been taken over by Black...
...handsome young man freighted with a load of Saviour symbolism. The Christ aspect has been mercifully muted in the movie, but there is still plenty of mystical mystification in the role. It seems that his vocation-conferred on him by a holy man in Baja California-is to help people ease their way into death, and Flora, hemorrhaging into her handkerchief, is his current candidate. She has other plans for Chris-bed. But when Flora finally gets him there, he begins taking off her jewels to prepare her for going forth on that far and final journey...
...company now owns seven Boeing 707 jets and has paid off all but $12 million of their cost. Additional planes-two of them on lease-help out with the busy schedule: eleven weekly flights to New York, one to Johannesburg, plus others to 17 European cities. With its biggest expansion yet under way-the $90 million move into the jumbo jets-El Al expects to carry a million passengers...