Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using stereotypes in their relations with blacks, Summer School Director Thomas E. Crooks, for instance, said, "I can't believe that these attitudes exist here. I have no sense--from the 7th floor of Holyoke Center--of any tensions. I do have the sense of universal concern about race relations on the part of both blacks and whites...
George Wallace has clambered up the public opinion polls by fulminating against "revolutionaries" and rioters. "We're not talking about race," he told an audience in Rhode Island last week. "We're talking about anarchy. One reason we're gonna be elected President is because we're the only one that's talked out against this sort of thing." Ronald Reagan gets his loudest applause when he refers to the issue of crime in the streets. "We talk of sending a man to the moon," he observed in Alabama, "but we can't even...
...Wallace carries some Southern states and the major candidates run a very close race, it is possible that neither the Democrat nor the Republican will get the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Wallace has said that in this case he might attempt to barter his electoral votes for policy concessions before the electors meet Dec. 16. In fact, it is most unlikely that any candidate would treat with Wallace. Thus, the issue would be up to Congress in January. The Constitution calls for the House of Representatives to select the President, with each state delegation casting one vote...
...nchez withdrew to greet several thousand of his own partisans at La Fortaleza and to ponder running as an independent. His candidacy would drain off many votes that normally would go to the P.D.P. nominee. Barring a three-way race, Negrón is slightly favored to defeat New Progressive Party Candidate Luis Ferré, a fervent advocate of statehood and the only other significant candidate. If the Popular Democratic Party should indeed splinter, the era of Muñoz and of steady commonwealth status may be ended...
...soreness in Gibson's arm has disappeared ("I didn't do anything special about it," he says, "it just went away"), and his performance is one good reason why St. Louis, with a 12½-game lead, has made a mockery of the National League pennant race. Other hurlers around the majors have won more games, of course: Detroit's Denny McLain already has 19 victories to his credit, San Francisco's Juan Marichal 18, and Cleveland's Luis Tiant 16. Gibson's record is 14-5, but the last time he lost...