Word: impacted
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...locations; in a state with only 292,000 registered Democrats, that provided a cell for every 5,800 voters. Kennedy himself seemed to be everywhere, and everywhere he went he wowed them. Nebraska was also the best vindication yet of his longer-range design: to create such an impact in the primaries that Humphrey delegates from the non-primary states will be shaken loose. The magic number in Chicago will be 1,312 votes, and most estimates of committed and potential delegate strength put Humphrey well ahead at present. But every Kennedy victory puts that lead in greater jeopardy...
...another display of Kennedy's extraordinary emotional impact on Negroes. In the early days of the Kennedy Administration, both Jack and Bobby were criticized by black leaders for inadequate and tardy attention to civil rights. That attitude changed gradually, so that now, when Kennedy visits Watts, the word is "Make way for the President." In Washington's ghetto recently, he was greeted as a "blue-eyed soul brother...
...turmoil had all the more impact because the French under De Gaulle have seemed to be inoculated against the passions of public misbehavior-and, some contend, even against the natural volatility that has marked their past. In the Third or Fourth Republic, last week's troubles would not have seemed too abnormal. But under De Gaulle, it appeared as if France had come to regard disciplined stability as its new norm; never before had the Gaullist government proved ineffectual at suppressing defiance. "I respect only those who resist me," De Gaulle once said, "but I cannot tolerate them." This...
...through news and public-affairs programming that TV has made its greatest impact on racial matters. The industry cliche of the month is "tell it like it is." The National Education Television network and individual stations in at least three U.S. cities have worked up programs using variants of that phrase for a title. One production is aimed at the Negro audience; the others explain the ghettos' problems to the white world. CBS is preparing a history and cultural series tracing the U.S. Negro back to the time of the slave traders. ABC last week announced a sixpart exploration...
...courses--"Automatic Computing" and "Applied Science and Technological Progress"--will be "an effort to introduce modern technology into the classical courses," he said, and will stress the impact of science on society...