Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VOTING. Despite persistent pressure by the Justice Department and courageous registration drives by Negro organizers in the South, only 29% of the region's potential of 2,000,000 Negro voters have so far been accepted by local registrars. Many civil rights leaders believe that nothing would improve the Negro's condition faster than full voting power; yet none see any prospect that this will soon happen. Federal prosecution is tediously slow. The Kennedy Administration's 1963 civil rights bill, still bogged down in Congress, would speed up the process by automatically qualifying as literate anyone...
Start a Latin American reformer talking, and he will begin reciting the region's needs almost by rote: schools, houses, hospitals - and, always, land reform. As his example of land reform, he invariably points to Mexico, where land and liberty, tierra y libertad, was the war cry of Emiliano Zapata when his peasant army sacked the giant haciendas and occupied Mexico City in the bloody 1910 revolution. In those days, 835 rich families controlled 97% of the country's cultivated land. But not for long. In 1913, leading a band of armed riders, Revolutionary Major Lucio Blanco seized...
...liturgical reformers, Rome's Sacred Congregation of Rites urged bishops to introduce some measure of lay participation in the Mass. Since then, the progress of liturgical reform has been rapid in some places and slow in others, depending upon the attitude of the nation's or region's Catholic hierarchy. The hierarchies in several countries have received papal permission to use the language of the country in parts of the Mass. Enthusiasm for liturgical reform in Germany and France contrasts with stony immobility in Ireland, Spain and much of Latin America. In the U.S., liturgical reform...
...earth. But not until men began probing the upper atmosphere with instrumented rockets could the conditions that caused this sound bounce be fully understood. Early this month, scientists at the White Sands Missile Range used a phenomenon like that at Victoria's funeral to help them chart a region of the upper atmosphere...
...canvass, this one taken in the once-solid Democratic South, also came as bad news to Rockefeller. It pitted Goldwater, Rocky and Romney against one another in a series of trial heats against President Kennedy. Of the three, Rocky was the only Republican who would fail to carry the region.* The statistics...