Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. The final volume of their 38-year labor on the story of civilization once again demonstrates the Durants' immense talent for transmuting tireless research into never tiresome storytelling...
Among the openly subversive groups are the U.S. Communist Party, the Maoist Progressive Labor Party, various Black Power groups such as S.N.C.C., RAM and shaven-skulled Ron Karenga's Los Angeles-based US, plus the volatile cadres of the New Left, which are so concerned with internal disputes that some of their organizations cannot remain in existence for more than a month at a time. Unsophisticated pacifist or antidraft outfits and digger do-gooders from the hippie subculture are frequently suckered into the hard-line camp and end up unwittingly propagandizing as activists...
...mayor generally follows a liberal Democratic line, has organized labor on his side, and asserts that he, not the "fake liberal" Specter, is the "rightful heir of Clark and Dilworth." Clark, now Pennsylvania's senior Senator, has campaigned with Tate, and this week Vice President Hubert Humphrey is scheduled to appear on Tate's behalf...
There was every reason for last week's annual Tory conference to be a celebration. The Labor Party's economic programs have proved both unpopular and unproductive. Prime Minister Harold Wilson is widely accused of being a cynical and somewhat oily manipulator of power. Tory candidates have swept eight recent local elections, including those for two Parliamentary seats that were once considered safe for Labor. And the latest opinion poll showed a significant swing to the Conservatives, who now trail Labor by a mere 1.9% of Britain's voting public...
...entire Conservative Opposition to Her Majesty's Labor Government were trying to prove a thesis put forward by Deputy Tory Leader Reginald Maudling. Noting "an alarming decline in the standing of Parliament and politicians," Maudling suggested in a signed article in the Times that "never in recent times have the politicians of every party commanded so little credence from the public...