Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shanker is out for power and dis ruption of the school system. We all know that the strike is not at all in the interests of the students but to prevent the system from decentralizing. Local boards might well mean quality education for all students in New York City - something which hasn't arisen from a slow, centralized bureaucracy. I am a senior in high school, and if the system remains the way it is, I am glad that this is the last year that I will be a part...
Nondefense spending would rise by $26 billion, with sizable increases projected for social security and Medicare but not for any sweeping new domestic programs. All this could be financed, he has suggested, by growing prosperity and resulting higher tax income. Domestically, Nixon favors greater emphasis on private and local efforts to resuscitate the nation's blighted cities and ailing rural regions. He has advocated a mixture of "black capitalism," private investment, tax credits and Government loans to rebuild the ghettos. He emphasizes a similar dispersal of power away from the Federal Government in tackling poverty...
During the afternoon, he drove eleven miles to nearby Buffalo, dropped off a blue suit at a cleaner's shop and sipped a cup of hot chocolate at a local grill. That evening, the Humphreys drove through flurrying snow to his headquarters in Minneapolis...
Among the Turnovers. Even in those few districts where seats did change party hands, the results seemed to depend far more on individual personalities and local conditions than on broad national issues?Viet Nam, law and order, inflation, the Negro revolution and the white backlash. In Ohio, for example, Republican Frances P. Bolton was defeated by Democratic Representative Charles A. Vanik. The deciding factor was Mrs. Bolton's age: she is 83, Vanik 55. In Missouri, Democrat James W. Symington, 41, handsome former chief of protocol for the U.S. State Department, took the suburban St. Louis County district that Republican...
...Fistfights. New Mexico, which has only two Representatives, bucked the stability syndrome by voting both incumbents out of office. Republican Manuel Lujan Jr. upset five-term Democratic Representative Thomas G. Morris mainly on the basis of local economic issues. Republican Edgar F. Foreman, 34, overturned Democratic Representative E. S. Johnny Walker, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. In his political past, Foreman has mainly attracted attention by getting into fistfights with political foes. This time he managed to keep his temper...