Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS SPECIAL REPORT (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). "What Happened to the Riot Report?" finds encouraging response at the local level, but discouragingly limited action at higher levels of government...
...never been a policymaker and, despite his experience as Texas Democratic chairman, never was a political technician of national stature. He functioned strictly as an operations officer who followed his chief's orders with uncritical zeal. Traditionally, a Postmaster General devotes much of his time to high-level politicking. With Johnson out of the race, however, General Watson may be able to give full attention to improving the postal service. It will also give Watson a chance to come out of obscurity and run his own shop...
...same time, Clifford announced that the U.S. force level in South Viet Nam would increase within the next five months, from the presently authorized total of 525,000 men to 549,500. An effort would be made to maintain that ceiling, he emphasized, because of a U.S. policy decision "to turn over gradually the major effort to the South Vietnamese" (see following story...
...hardly fulfill the Ed School's responsibility to the ghetto, nor can they sufficiently sensitize a School of 800. Money problems may temporarily prevent the recruitment of more students, but the arguments of unrecognized competence and unique perspective--now used to justify seeking out students--apply at the Faculty level. Until the Ed School starts hiring black and Puerto Rican Faculty, it will not be meeting its obligation to the cities or to itself...
...pamphlet published in 1964--entitled "The Gun Law Problem"--sets out the organization's basic attitude toward gun laws: "The National Rifle Association does not advocate, propose, or suggest any restrictive gun legislation at any level of government...