Word: segmented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychedelic drug scandal has come one gone without shaking the faith of a small but dedicated segment of the community in plain old marijuana. Cambridge does not have a drug problem. It does, however, harbor a very small sub-culture that regards cannabis as little less than a necessity. These people are not addicts, because marijuana, or "pot" as it is better known by devotees and would-be hipsters ("weed," "grass" and less printable names are also used), does not cause addiction. Still, a few local residents would agree with the young man who declared passionately. "I love...
...Notwithstanding a few minor inaccuracies, the interesting and informative article on the Mormons [Oct. 18] was an objective observation on one segment of America's momentous racial awakening. GEORGE E. JOHNSON Brigham Young University Provo, Utah...
...elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it has long seemed incredible to me that a church with so much forward vision in social welfare and higher education can be so backward in its outlook on a segment of the human race that is also supposed to be among our brothers. One of the major tenets of the church is that the Gospel of Jesus Christ (as we understand it) should be taken to every nation and people on earth. My church fails in this despite the lesson it should have learned in its early history...
Pettigrew predicted that Boston Negroes would join effective nation-wide boycotts of companies with discriminatory employment practices. According to Pettigrew white resistance to integration is strongest in the lower-middle class, "the most reactionary segment of the population on any topic," and among "the Wall Street Journal crowd...
...best new program on the air is East Side, West Side (CBS), which stars George C. Scott as a Manhattan social worker. Well written and excellently acted, the show is neither maudlin nor melodramatic, having disciplined dialogue and high plausibility. The first segment was about a prostitute who was also a devoted mother, a theme that could have been treated with cheap sensationalism, but was presented instead as a sensitive and unsentimental examination of moral ambivalences...