Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extrasensory Contact. Amid the complexities and problems of his first nationwide campaign, Bobby Kennedy is an organizer to reckon with. "I don't have to think about organization," says Jack Kennedy. "I just show up." The brothers have an extrasensory communications system with each other: Bobby rarely has to consult Jack when confronted with a difficult decision; he acts quickly and instinctively. A young man of brutal honesty and impeccable integrity, Bobby frequently antagonizes politicians with his blunt opinions and untactful tactics. Says Jack: "Every politician in Massachusetts was mad at Bobby after 1952 [when he managed Jack...
...board did not reckon with the students themselves. Last week 590 of the 598 students at Galax High School fired off a petition demanding that the 285 white students from Grayson be admitted -along with the eight Negroes. The kids raised such a fuss that 1,900 grownups signed similar petitions. Protestant ministers called sharply on the board to act "with respect for every human being and regard for the democratic privileges open to all persons." Faced with such a reaction, the school board hustled lawyers off to Baltimore to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to stay the integration...
...league owners also will hear from Len Corbosiero who plans to ask for a franchise for the Los Angeles Jets. The league also must reckon with the possibility that owner Bob Short may want to switch the Minneapolis club to another locale...
...only safe generalization about long-range population predictions is that they have always proved wrong. When Malthus foresaw mass starvation in Europe unless its people stopped breeding, he failed to reckon with the industrial revolution and the agricultural potential of the Americas. Latter-day players of the Malthusian numbers game, who foresee global economic ruin in one, two or six centuries, usually fail to reckon sufficiently on the unknowable potentialities of science and the unpredictable turn of events. Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: "With the present rate of increase, it can be calculated that...