Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although 1965 marked the enactment of the voting rights law and King's successful campaign in Selma, Ala., it also brought the riots in Watts. To many Negroes, the pace of gain was too slow and too meager. King went northward, turning his battle toward economic issues in New York City, Los Angeles...
...Decision. The carnage of Tet demonstrated to each side its own weaknesses and its adversary's strengths. With the U.S. public becoming ever more weary of war, Johnson began to talk in private of "forcing the pace" toward the settlement that has frustratingly eluded him. As his decision not to seek re-election hardened, so did his determination to make one more peace effort and to make it soon. It was, said a White House aide, Johnson's "gut decision," and it was his alone...
...paper's founder, he has been the last remaining member of his family to show much interest in the daily. From the time he joined the paper in 1957, he has worked in all departments; when he became editor in 1963, he phased out oldtimers whose pace had faltered and went on a youth kick. He increased the edit staff to 50, most of them reporters in their 20s. More important, he infected them with his own enthusiasm for their paper and their city...
...Plain Dealer has not necessarily been making its gains at the expense of the competition; the Press, too, is gaining circulation, if at a somewhat slower pace. To be sure, the Press is not quite the paper it was under its longtime editor, Louis Seltzer, who retired in 1966. An unabashed sentimentalist where Cleveland was concerned, Seltzer did his best to identify the paper with the town, to such an extent that it often dictated the choice of candidates for public office. That is a role the present management has chosen to forgo. "By playing kingmaker," says Editor Thomas...
...junior year, he tried out for the Harvard team and played his first competitive golf match as number two man. While Harvard was rolling up a 9-4 season record, Keefe was setting a 10-3 pace to lead the team...