Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life (see box p. 23). That such a solution would not only be accepted but welcomed by a great many whites is all too evident. Any meaningful integration of blacks must involve moving more and more of them into white suburbs, training them for skilled crafts and opening union membership. These are the specific steps that meet the most stubborn resistance from the white community...
...over a quarter of the globe is now desperately retrenching, and a great many Britons might agree with the Spectator: "What we must do is to act on the very threat that many of our partners have used against us too successfully in the past. We should withdraw our membership...
...national organization of radical faculty and graduate students seeking university reform. At Harvard, the membership consists almost entirely of students, although faculty members predominate nationally, according to Ellen Cantarow, a graduate student in Comparative Literature and a member...
Clean Government. Soka Gakkai was founded in Japan in the early 1930s by an evangelizing Japanese schoolteacher named Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, who blended the theology of a militant 13th century Buddhist monk named Nichiren with a philosophy of this-worldly benefit that stressed personal success. The sect now claims a membership of at least 16 million in Japan, and its Clean Government Party is the third largest political group within the Diet. In the U.S., Soka Gakkai at first concentrated on winning converts among Japanese-Americans or G.I.s who had married Japanese girls. About 1967, because the movement had virtually exhausted...
...Penitentiary in Atlanta. By then, Valachi was fighting for his own life. He had received the "kiss of death" from his capo (boss) and cellmate Vito Genovese. In the end, Valachi did what the Cosa Nostra presumed he had done already. He became the first man to confess his membership in the shadowy organization and spilled his story to the Bureau of Narcotics...