Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hampshire had put Johnson far ahead of all possible competitors. Not stated, however, was the fact that the county was historically Democratic and had given 68% of its vote to Johnson in 1964. Occasionally, pollsters also abuse polls. Some shifty operators claim to interview 1,000 people but only reach 400. A few conduct surveys for one party, then sell them under the table to the other side...
Such manuscripts reach the hands of Grani Publisher Gleb Rar by a variety of well-planned means, including secret contacts arranged by Rar between Russian writers and Western visitors (one was British Lecturer Gerald Brooke, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for bringing in anti-Soviet propaganda). Rar says that he prints "only a fraction" of what he gets. Usually, as in Cancer Ward, he publishes excerpts in Grani first and then a full text through Grani's parent publishing house, Possev, which prints a variety of Russian-language fiction and nonfiction titles; much of its output...
COLES: I find that people like Kevin White and Bobby Kennedy can reach across and obtain the alliance of both poor Negroes and poor whites. But not that of the intellectual community. Students are ready to jump on Kevin White without comprehending the enormously complicated job this man has got. Boston is a city that voted 47 per cent for Louise Day Hicks. White is trying to deal with the needs of a predominantly lower middle class community which has been led into the same trap the white southerner has been led into, the trap of bigotry as a means...
...Reach the Children
...meant this book to reach middle-class white children. I wasn't really trying to describe Negro children or their view of the world. I wanted to describe through the activities of children how some of these confusing social and political events occur, what gets them going, how ambiguous and tentative and accidental a lot of them...