Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the special report prepared for President Johnson in October, only 13% of all white families are classified as poor. But 32% of all black families are classified as poor. Thus, while only one out of every seven white persons in America is poor, one out of every three black persons is poor. What's more, 45% of all substandard housing in America is occupied by black people...
...course, politicians can blatantly abuse polls. One case was last November's leaked report that a poll of a "bellwether" county in New 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...
...Bastille, a symbol dear to every revolutionary's heart. Getting tough, police fired tear gas, concussion grenades, slashed any head within range of their long, hard-rubber truncheons. In all, some 30 fierce battles erupted throughout Paris, and the city authorities sent out emergency calls for doctors to report to the Sorbonne medical school to treat hundreds of wounded rioters and police. All told, 130 policemen and 447 civilians were injured, 795 rioters were arrested. Fighting also broke out in other large French cities, including Lyon, where the first riot death occurred when a police commissioner was crushed...
...applause from bastions of business such as London's Financial Times, which called her "one of the few really effective ministers in the present government." A lifelong socialist and a cause-carrying M.P. for more than two decades, she served as an evangelist for the Beveridge report, which blueprinted Britain's postwar welfare state. She has a tongue like a stiletto when she needs it, and once goaded Tory M.P. Peter Walker into comparing her to Dickens' Madame Defarge. "Madame Guillotine," he called her. "All that's missing is the knitting." As her friends from Labor...
...action yesterday followed almost point-by-point an HPC report issued two weeks ago. As has become customary, four HPC members testified during most of the hour the CEP spent considering the resolution...