Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negroes, in some cases with white help, also showed new strength in lesser contests. In the racially mixed Richmond district, Dr. William Ferguson Reid became the first Negro elected to the Virginia legislature since 1891. Charles City County, Va., elected a Negro sheriff, James M. Bradby, and a county clerk, lona Adkins. Bradby defeated a white incumbent of 43 years' standing. In New Orleans, Attorney Ernest Morial won a seat in Louisiana's state legislature. In Mississippi, Holmes County's Robert Clarke was elected, thus integrating the state legislature, while six other Negroes won posts as county...
...favorite books is Who Governs? by Robert Dahl, which describes the political assimilation of European immigrants in New Haven. Although Dahl was not primarily concerned with Negroes, Stokes associates the Negroes' evolution with that of other minority groups. "If the ethnic pulled himself up a bit with the help of the rope," wrote Dahl, "he could often gain a toehold in the system; the higher he climbed, the higher he could reach for another pull upward. He was not greatly interested in leveling the mountain itself...
...city's mounting problems even part way. During Locher's regime, says Thomas Vail, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Some of the most powerful people in Cleveland were going to city hall and saying 'Let's get going. What can we do to help?' But nobody could get anywhere with Locher." In Vail's phrase, "that little extra spark" was missing...
...constitution, whose advocates spent more than $500,000 on hard-sell advertising that succeeded only in opening half-healed religious wounds. Governor Rockefeller, who split with other Republican leaders to give tepid endorsement to the charter, actually came out with a net gain. Presidentially speaking, his stand will probably help his image among Catholic voters...
...just over the horizon, along with a gross national product that seems likely to top a trillion dollars by the early 1970s, is an array of new machines, teaching methods, foods and other tools that will help man cope with such compelling problems. The next 50 years promise to provide even further evidence that the capitalist system is the most productive in human history...