Word: seeks
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Upcoming municipal elections should help to prevent violence in some cities, particularly where blacks hold or seek high office. Newark Negroes, sensing an opportunity to gain control of the city government in next May's elections, have reason for restraint; they wish to do nothing to help Anthony Imperiale, who bases his candidacy on white fear of the Negroes. Blacks in Cleveland are likely to reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city...
Ginott's basic point is that mature parents can easily increase their sensitivity to their children, becoming demi-psychologists who seek out the source of a child's behavior rather than concentrate on its surface expression. With a little common sense, he insists, children of any age can be intelligently decoded. When they refuse to cooperate with a mother getting ready for the evening, she should be alert for more than ordinary balkiness and attempt to sympathize with whatever is bothering them. One kindly mother in that situation, Ginott reports, calmed her kids by saying...
...Donaldson, Lufkin and a Big Board governor, is pressing the other 32 governors to approve a change in the constitution, which would then have to be voted on by the 1,366 exchange-seat holders. The exchange has called for a committee report by July 17, and will seek the SEC's opinion. Lufkin does not intend to be put off. His firm's prospectus declares bluntly that if the constitution is not amended, Donaldson, Lufkin will go public anyway. If the stock exchange then drops it from membership, the firm seems prepared to risk the short-term...
...Paranoids always make a persuasive appeal to any group of the population who rightly or wrongly feel persecuted, and they seek out such groups because they are most likely to view their paranoia as true understanding of this group's particular predicament. Which brings me to the particular problems of some of the black students who, fortunately, seem to recognize ever more that the SDS is using them, rather than helping them. They are not quite as successful to see through the motives of some of the paranoid student leaders...
Northwest President Ben Heineman appears to be a businessman at bay. Only hours before his conglomerate's annual meeting began in Chicago last week, the Justice Department announced that it would seek to block Northwest's bid for Goodrich. A stockholder at the meeting asked, why not just drop the whole thing? Nothing doing, replied Heineman. "I don't think I have ever been known as a summer soldier...