Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Conrad has pictured Richard Nixon in checkered silks, supposedly symbolizing the dog Checkers. But, as any sports-minded person can see, Nixon's checkered silks represent the checkered flag used for winners.
Americans are reminded almost daily of the Negro's checkered progress toward equality. Seldom, by contrast, are they apprised of the social and economic lag that afflicts the nation's second largest disadvantaged minority: the 4,677,000 Mexican-Americans of the U.S. Southwest-proud, poor and increasingly...
Obvious Need. OEO officials believe that the changes-particularly the one limiting participating of the poor on local boards-will reduce the program's value as a tool for "trying, testing and learning." Even so, they are unlikely to silence opposition from Republicans or Southern Democrats who accuse poverty...
The main problem to date has been that rehabilitation is costly, time-consuming and inconvenient. It requires a major investment in property that has, at best, a low-profit potential. Beyond that, eviction of the present paying tenants means that the building remains fallow during the months of renovation work...
Wide Screen. Clearly, a man who can inspire such passion needs a tough-minded and sensitive biographer; instead he has Bob Thomas, 45, Hollywood reporter for the Associated Press, whose prose style seems derived largely from the wide-screen Hollywood novels of Harold Robbins. Nevertheless, Cohn was one of the...