Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement admitting the existence of "de facto segregation" in the Boston public schools. According to one Boston political observer this is where the trouble began. "In their insistence on a de facto segregation statement the NAACP failed to realize," he says, "that Louise is a lawyer and a politician. For her the phrase de facto segregation connotates deliberate discrimination, which was not the case in Boston...
...Virgil Wood, jumped up on the platform and shouted "Hitler" while waving his fist at Mrs. Hicks. The very next day, as Mrs. Hicks well knew, was Bunker Hill Day, a public holiday in the working class neighborhood of Charlestown. Mrs. Hicks received the loudest applause given to any politician in the Bunker Hill Dav Parade...
...seen from a series of Harvard institutions -- the Graduate School of Public Affairs, the Center for International Affairs, the Neiman Fellows, and a number of Business School programs. Most professors at Harvard are no farther than one person removed from the policy-makers; if they don't know the politician themselves, then at least they know someone who knows them. But at other colleges, such as Berkeley "you have to yell to be heard in Washington...
...task of choosing a site for the long-awaited New York metropolitan jetport. Keeping in mind the area you represent, plus the wealth of technical information available, feel free to caucus, make deals, take bribes, draft legislation, and generally become--as best you know how--a real-life politician...
...School's highly regarded art courses. Among its best-known alumnae is Eleanor Roosevelt, who studied there in the late '20s. While starring as the attorney-hero of television's The Defenders, Actor E. G. Marshall studied law at the New School. Even so astute a politician as Tammany Leader J. Raymond Jones enrolled last year in its popular Center for New York City Affairs, where courses are led by such experts as Deputy Mayor Timothy Costello and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton...