Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opponent was Roland Giduz, a 43-year-old white who has served twelve years on the town board of aldermen. Giduz is a liberal on race issues and supports the town's open housing ordinance. He manages the University of North Carolina alumni magazine; Lee is head of employee relations at Duke University in nearby Durham. Lee is not unaware of his special position. "I'll be walking a tightrope," he says. "I could be slaughtered from both sides: by the white racists or the black militants...
...ultimate conflict between Arabs and Israelis, however, is not so much a matter of land or race or religion as it is one of culture. The Arabs are light-years behind the European Israelis in education and modern managerial and technical skills. The struggle is between a highly developed nation and a woefully underdeveloped nation. Nasser led his revolt in 1952 not only to free Egypt from 4,000 years of misrule and foreign domination, but to bring it into the modern world by the simplistic techniques of socialism. Distrusted by the Israelis, the loser in two wars...
...Republic style of cultivating groundswells, Poher held off from declaring his widely expected candidacy until the last minute (the deadline is this week) but did what he could to build suspense. He was feeling "calm and serene," he assured newsmen at his first press conference. What about entering the race? "I am not a candidate, and I do not hope to be a candidate, but maybe I will be obliged to be a candidate," said Poher. Politicians streamed in and out of the Elysée to confer with him, and even Mayor Gaston Defferre of Marseille, the Socialist Party...
Nonetheless, an underlying pattern has emerged: the American university has suddenly become a political arena -the prime forum for a generation that has lost faith in the ability of regular political institutions to solve such national problems as war, race and poverty. As a result, the university is losing whatever neutrality it professes. In pushing it toward social action, students are helping to create a new U.S. institution: the political university. It is a dangerous role for universities. In Latin America, where universities have long been "politicized," most higher education has suffered badly. Moreover, extremism on the left has historically...
...campus. As Yale's President Kingman Brewster Jr. put it at a press conference last week: "Campus violence will grow worse unless an intense effort is made to end the war in Viet Nam, remove the inequities in the draft, solve problems of the cities and improve race relations...