Word: merit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Merit Alone. The price, of course, has been high. Since 1961, close to half a million Cubans have left their homeland, driven away by material deprivation, political indoctrination and limitations on personal freedom. More than 300,000 of them have come to the U.S., and fully loaded shuttle flights of gusanos (worms), Castro's derisive description of the refugees, continue twice a day, five days a week...
...behind is Gilberto Morejon, a Negro who works in the modern fishing port outside Havana. "Before," he says, referring to the days of Batista, "people like me had no chance. We were discriminated against either because we were black or because we were poor. Now we are judged on merit alone." Not enough Cubans share his enthusiasm, however, to usher in Castro's Utopia any time soon. How else can a social order be explained in which fully 2,400,000 of Cuba's 8,000,000 people belong to Comites para la defensa de la revoluci...
Student council president Eric Yoffie said at an open meeting last night that the demands of the black students had some merit. "The university is dragging its feet," Yoffie said...
PETER BOGDANOVICH'S Targets, a low-budget oddity of considerable merit, snuck into Boston last week on the bottom half of an exploitation bill at the Center. Paramount, the distributor, doesn't know how to handle the film--a realistic shocker about an All-American boy-turned-sniper on the rampage--and despite good reviews and box office on its initial theatrical engagements, they stuck a plea for gun control arbitrarily before the credits, then decided not to open the film at all. In the depths of his soul, film critic Bogdanovich probably doesn't care. After all, many films...
...Hickel also stirred controversy when discussing his new job as Interior Secretary. "I think we have had a policy of conservation for conservation's sake," he said. "Just to withdraw a large area for conservation purposes and lock it up for no reason doesn't have any merit." His statement immediately evoked the image of a reckless exploitation of natural resources...