Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of real contention over men or issues. The very idea of nominating a self-proclaimed "unknown quantity" such as Agnew hardly helped. Neither did the tasteless opulence of Miami Beach or the well-coiffured, well-dressed appearance of the delegates. "They're nice people," said one big-city Northern Senator, "but they've just never ridden a subway." The comment was not altogether fair. It is such people who work long and hard for their political parties; affluence, or the lack of it, is not necessarily an index of social conscience. Still, the contrast between the people...
...dramatically cut back to the vicinity of the 17th parallel. Diplomats assumed that the Pentagon would understand these motives. But the generals, aware that the President, on strictly military grounds, had actually drawn the line at the 20th parallel, well into Ho Chi Minh territory, promptly bombed to the northern limits of their authority. Washington-not to say a great number of Americans-was paralyzed with dismay, and the White House was obliged to issue a clarifying statement...
Most black students are from the South and have attended predominantly black schools. But the community includes many who came from northern cities, in spite of substantially different backgrounds. Being black is enough...
There were no mortars, but the two dozen guerrillas that crept up to the base one night last week carried AK-47 automatic rifles and satchel charges. The men penetrated the northern edge of the base at a point where there was no fence. Thai guards responsible for base security flashed the alarm. By that time, however, the intruders had already damaged two planes, an F-4D Phantom fighter bomber and a C-141 jet transport fitted for medical evacuation. In the confusing half-hour firefight that ensued, a Thai guard was killed and four Americans were wounded, one critically...
Lunching Uptown. In most matters of dress, few companies are more conservative than those in finance and insurance. At Chicago's Northern Trust Co., a tradition requiring all officers to wear hats to work has been abandoned, but sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That...