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Tack, the course a boat is pursuing in terms of the direction from which the wind hits her bow (a boat is on starboard tack if the wind is blowing from the right-hand side, a port tack if from the left-hand side). To tack is to change course while sailing into the wind...
...brink of violence. That alchemical formula, of course, is the one that would transmute the ghettos from hostile enclaves-impoverished, ugly, seething with resentment-into integral, integrated parts of the cities. "For the present," says James Q. Wilson, Moynihan's predecessor at the Joint Center and now his right-hand man, "the urban Negro is, in a fundamental sense, the urban problem...
...role that came under a harsh spotlight during Blough's 1962 confrontation with President Kennedy. The man generally figured to have the inside track for the top job is Executive Vice President R. Heath Larry, 53, a former company labor negotiator who now serves as Blough's right-hand man. Ed Gott's new responsibilities might well signal the emergence of another candidate...
...events and achievements in every walk of life of the past two centuries." British Historian Neville Williams, 43, marshals his towering topics as well as his trivia very neatly. On the left-hand pages, political and international events are listed year by year, month by month; on the right-hand pages are achievements in the arts, sciences and everything else...
...virtually impossible to find a regular taxi. Drivers flee to safer sides of town, often decline--despite stiff penalties for turning down passengers--to take anyone into the area. The void is filled by scores of unmetered and unlicensed "gypsy cabs," identified by a little orange light in the right-hand corner of the windshield. Fares depend pretty much on the mood of the driver...