Word: outspoken
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...legislation-a particularly explosive issue in Chicago-and his consistently pro-civil rights votes on Capitol Hill cost Douglas the support of many fearful whites. Against the advice of campaign aides, Percy has also come out in favor of modified open-housing laws, but he has not been so outspoken on the issue as Douglas. Beyond that, the Democrat's prospects have been dimmed by an inchoate sense of dissatisfaction with the Administration...
...candidate who had most to lose from the riots in Atlanta's Negro slums was Ellis Arnall, a polished millionaire lawyer who in 1942 wrested the governorship from the legendary Gene Talmadge. Running as an outspoken racial moderate, Arnall, now 59, this year had to compete with five others for the Democratic nomination to succeed Governor Carl Sanders. His most formidable opposition came from segregationists, who did their utmost to exploit the specter of black power...
...need for "redistribution of income to the poorer classes" and "a dash of socialism." Papandreou the elder had his differences with King Constantine, but he nonetheless favored the monarchy as an institution, arguing only that "the King should reign and not rule." His son is a far more outspoken antimonarchist. In an emotional speech last week, he announced that "the Center Union does not accept the King as co-ruler." Stephanopoulos & Co., he said, "are puppets who take their orders from the King...
...Atlanta, Police Chief Herbert Jenkins dubbed S.N.C.C. the "Nonstudent Violent Committee," and similar sentiments echoed throughout the Negro civil rights movement. "It is still my firm conviction that a riot is socially destructive and self-defeating," lamented Martin Luther King Jr. Atlanta's Negro leaders were more outspoken; they adopted a resolution condemning the riot as "irresponsible" and "shameful." Julian Bond, the Atlanta Negro who was elected to the Georgia legislature last winter but later denied his seat for condoning draft card-burning as an antiwar gesture, resigned as S.N.C.C. publicity director. Other Atlanta Negroes set fire...
...with the Butcher. The other world was evoked first by Claude Brown, 28, a forceful, outspoken Negro who at age five saw his father slit a man's throat, later spent time in reform school after peddling heroin in his Harlem neighborhood. Now a Rutgers University law student, Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships...