Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer Harris' question, TIME and Sperry Rand's Univac Division agreed to help conduct the first unofficial nationwide presidential primary, called CHOICE 68. On April 24, a total of more than 1,000,000 bal lots were cast on campuses from Maine to California. Merely by punching out perforations in computer cards, they indicated their first, second and third choices for President, their views on the Viet Nam war, and their attitudes toward urban problems. Fed into the UNIVAC 1108's memory bank in Washington, the results were tabulated and analyzed within 15 minutes after the "command...
...Negro students and 100 antiwar youths walked out on him, the crowd booed them and cheered Humphrey's crack: "We were just testing the exits on both ends of the gym, and they work." But Humphrey turned serious when one Negro student, Robert Pickett, 20, rose to question him. Pickett said that he could not buy Humphrey's talk about the "American dream" because "for the black man it is the American nightmare." Humphrey replied that he understood Pickett's being discouraged, that not enough had been done to achieve racial equality. and the reason...
...seven men newly elected to the 19-member council, Mrs. Phillips pushed through a law even stiffer than the new federal statute. While the federal law will cover some 80% of the nation's housing by 1970, the Milwaukee measure, effective immediately, grants far fewer exceptions. The question now is whether the city, in the face of inevitable white backlash, can effectively enforce the ordinance...
WHAT ever happened to America the Beautiful? While quite a bit of it is still visible, the recurring question reflects rising and spreading frustration over the nation's increasingly dirty air, filthy streets and malodorous rivers-the relentless degradations of a once virgin continent. This man-made pollution is bad enough in itself, but it reflects something even worse: a dangerous illusion that technological man can build bigger and bigger industrial societies with little regard for the iron laws of nature...
...search for solutions, there is no point in attempting to take nature back to its pristine purity. The approach must look forward. There is no question that just as technology has polluted the country, it can also depollute it. The real question is whether enough citizens want action. The biggest need is for ordinary people to learn something about ecology, a humbling as well as fascinating way of viewing reality that ought to get more attention in schools and colleges. The trouble with modern man is that he tends to yawn at the news that pesticides are threatening remote penguins...