Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominations for various offices as recorded by locals in the U.S. and Canada. Nominations for Abel: 1,310 locals; for McDonald, 904. The locals' nominations in the past, Abel pointed out, have been a good bellwether of rank-and-file voting. In this case, he added, the strong push in his favor "reflects a clear lack of confidence" in McDonald. Election date...
...groups, dating back to the winter of 1960 when a band of determined Negro students first sat down at a variety-store lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and refused to move. That money is not likely to remain idle for long. Civil rights leaders plan to use it to push voting-registration drives and-despite general compliance with the new civil rights laws in metropolitan areas-to push into rural Southern hamlets where the law has never even been tested and WHITE ONLY signs still proclaim defiance...
...notable change has been made. Push through a pantry and you are in a replica of London's Garrison-hot red walls, Wellingtonian sconces, military drums for tables, and real plastic flowers sprouting from the ceiling. Here the young and not so young swingers may Frug, Watutsi, Swim-or just twitch-while an intellectual-looking French disque jockesse spins...
...Approach. To give the economy a greater lift, Chief Presidential Economist Gardner Ackley and his colleagues on the council are readying several plans for further tax cuts, and M.I.T.'s influential Paul Samuelson has strongly counseled President Johnson to push federal spending "above the psychological level of $100 billion." The Administration figures that it will have no trouble cutting excise taxes by as much as $3 billion, but it also plans to revive the concept of "temporary" reductions in income taxes that Congress turned down when it was forwarded by John Kennedy in 1961. Instead of asking for full...
...letter, written by Hayes Lamont, ways in which pressure might be effectively applied. Those interested might form ad hoc committees to push the movement. In addition the letter urged that advertising space be purchased in newspapers and that time be bought on local television stations to publicize the matter...