Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard former CIA Director John McCone ad mit that a check on incitement might sometimes be helpful. However, McCone, who headed the presidential commission that investigated 1965's Watts riot, warned that antiriot legislation would be no panacea. "What worries me," he said, "is the climate that might prevail in the country. I feel very deeply that unless we answer this problem, it is going to split our society irretrievably. The temptation is to say this is hopeless, but I think we have to stay at the job until we find the answer...
Teacher's Choice. Top officials in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, where state laws had long required Bible reading in the schools, simply assume that the state laws still prevail. In Alabama, each teacher must read Scripture to pupils regularly or risk the loss of state funds to the school-and Proxy Governor George Wallace sees a sure-fire political plus for him in a fight with anyone who wants to challenge that custom. A Vanderbilt professor surveyed Tennessee's school districts, found that the only change some had made was to let each teacher decide whether...
...father's word was law, and, whereas the Negro's basic spirituality has been castrated by the splintering of sects within the Negro community, the Irish exiles were united in one strong religious faith. Thus, young Paddy could be kept from allowing his fine temper to prevail by fear of family wrath-or worse, a session with the priest. But more's the power to you, Mr. Moynihan. A grand young man like you could even give the Kennedys a run for their money...
...seem more susceptible than ever to the "Burn, baby, burn!" appeal of the radicals. Whitney M. Young Jr., 46, executive director of the National Urban League and probably the most effective man in the nation when it comes to drumming up jobs for Negroes, says: "Whether the moderates can prevail will be determined by whether there is an immediate and tangible response to the riots from the white community." Adds Young, in the phrase with which he addresses mayors and businessmen: "You've got to give us some victories...
...posture to avoid overexposure, and all the while rounding up the state and county chairmen whose votes often determine the nominees. But there is a significant difference from 1964. Then, Goldwater stood unchallenged as the champion of the G.O.P.'s conservative wing, thus was able to prevail over the badly fragmented moderates. Now, Reagan's ascendancy poses the threat of a conservative split. Reagan, in fact, said of Nixon to one Republican Governor: "This guy's a loser. Any guy who can lose to Pat Brown can't win the presidency...