Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will make the efforts of these men "very much harder," said Revelle and therefore in these non-industrialized countries where the poor would be less burdened by a smaller family, the Pope's pronouncement does not serve the needs of humanity. This encylical will especially hurt the areas of northern Italy and the United States where many Catholics practice birth control already. Revelle thought that in these areas the position would simply, "tear people apart," although he did not feel it would affect their birth control practices. In these areas then the ban would be disruptive to Catholic faith...
...when the Southern states are subtracted, Rockefeller scores a four-point advantage over Humphrey while Nixon trails Humphrey by six. This is the key figure by Rockefeller's lights. If Wallace manages, as expected, to take a few Southern states that would otherwise go to Nixon, then the big Northern states become more crucial than ever for a Republican victory. It could be a telling argument?but Nixon never tires of" noting that in several primaries, the polls underestimated both his and McCarthy's strength...
White America is endlessly accommodating, verbally, in the matter of race. Southern politicians are learning to say "Negro" when they mean "nigger," and Northern liberals are careful now to say "black" when they mean "Negro." (That's because blacks have begun saying "Negro" when they mean "sellout.") Opportunities to use these terms do not occur every day, but whites keep in practice just in case...
...manor who tries to preserve her hopes, which comes to mean in the end simply preserving the life of her last son, the effects are puzzling but no more. To the blacks, (the only ones shown in the play are a group of captured soldiers from an all-black Northern regiment) the event is a sordid release but one that, it is amply implied, will get them nowhere...
...among them 4,500,000 refugees-into a patch of bush and swampland that is one-fourth the size of Biafra's former territory. The Biafrans, most of whom are Ibo tribesmen, fear that they will be massacred just as thousands of their kinsmen in northern Nigerian cities were killed two years ago. Many are starving, but they refuse to come out of hiding in the bush...