Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the merit of this objective, their plan for achieving it is internally ridiculous. If the Republicans do nominate Percy--and Levinson and Miss Kearns concede neither Nixon nor Romney would be a meaningful improvement on the incumbent--then who is to say a third party would benefit him? Is it not equally logical that the existence of such a party would split the anti-war vote in two and deprive the Republicans of their chance to beat LBJ? Certainly Levinson and Miss Kearns are not the only opponents of the war who would prefer to see a moderate Republican...
...immeasureable wedge of two agencies in opening college doors. Negro students from poverty backgrounds are enrolling in integrated colleges because of the 20-year effort of the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students. And the National Achievement Scholarship Program, funded by the Ford Foundation under the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, has uncovered and financed several thousand students in the past few years. Without the talent search of NSSFNS and NASP, the colleges would probably have continued in the various states of complacency still characteristic of the majority of our institutions of higher learning...
...writers long ignored this episode, perhaps because it reflected glory on neither Union nor Confederate colors (there was to be a congressional investigation of the scandalously inept, beer-blurred defense of Fort Pillow by its federal troopers). Now the story has been told in a first novel of remarkable merit...
Died. Anthony Mann, 60, movie director, a onetime off-Broadway bit-player who rose to direct Broadway shows like 1936's So Proudly We Hail before going to Hollywood, where he turned out over 40 films of meticulous workmanship but uneven merit, including The Glenn Miller Story and El Cid; of a heart attack; in West Berlin...
...volunteers active and ready for the next campaign. The decision was easy. The day after the election a letter went out to the store-front managers asking for resumes on their workers. Lindsay likes to say that his appointments are not made on a patronage basis but according to merit. Nonetheless, many of his campaign workers have moved into City Hall as everything from meat inspectors to commissioners amid cries of "Patronage", from organization Republicans who feel short-changed...