Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...processed. State units were ordered to raise minimum time spent on riot-control training from six to 32 hours a year, with added courses for officers. Another plan for improving efficiency through a realigning of many units was given an added push, despite the opposition of many Governors, who resist any change in the present setup, which tends to make the Guard a strictly local and highly political implement of the statehouse...
...only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack: "L.B.J. is at work again. The next thing you know, we'll be reading that the bombing of China was led by a Negro." And a Boston psychiatrist detected L.B.J.'s heavy hand of consensus behind it all. The next Cabinet bride, he said, will exchange...
Those who resist making value comparisons among groups do so on two grounds. The first is that science as yet lacks valid tools to sort mankind into biological races. The second is that even if science possessed such tools, the racial divisions could not conceivably be used to grade human worth. So meager is man's understanding of the complicated biochemistry of evolution and of the nonhereditary influences of cultural environment that no one can confidently assign that portion of intelligence with which man was born and that part he acquired. If heredity bestows his capacity to learn, culture...
...figures that humans can take care of themselves. It's the helpless that she responds to." Her response approaches aeluromania. Between her Hudson-view apartment in Manhattan and her handsome country home near Weston, Conn., Sandy now has five dogs and 21 cats. She just can't resist a stray. She has been heard to comment, while emptying yet another box of Kitty Litter: "I bet you wouldn't find Ava Gardner doing this...
...specter of inflation has long worried the Johnson Administration and, in fact, is the main reason it gives for requesting a 10% tax surcharge on individuals and corporations. Last week, at the House Ways and Means Committee hearings on the proposal (see THE NATION), many Congressmen seemed determined to resist higher taxes until the Administration makes an effort to cut spending...