Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amendment would also need the approval of 38 state legislatures, and it is impossible to predict how they would react. Generally, there has been resistance within smaller states to major electoral change. By abandoning the present method of giving a candidate all of a state's votes, no matter how small his popular plurality, reformers also reduce the bargaining power and importance of state party organizations. The Senate, traditionally more sensitive to states' rights than the House, is likely to provide a tougher battleground than the lower chamber...
...term progressed, classes got smaller as fewer kids began to come. Teachers felt apathetic towards the program and wondered whether it was accomplishing its objectives of motivating and broadening the children. At times, it seemed impossible to really broaden the way the children thought and acted when they were only at Challenge twice a week; their spontaneity and creativity could be stifled each day by environment in which in they spent most of their time...
...Styron's Nat Turner is one of those rare books which delighted most of the reading public and hit one part of the public--black militants--in a spot so sore that they responded in print. Possibly only individual memoirs have provoked similar reactions, and those from a much smaller group of people. "No novel," Styron says with that heavy calm that makes irony sound imperial instead of petty, "has ever been accorded the extraordinary accolade of having a whole book written about it as soon as it was published...
...conclusion, Harris says: "To the central question-Should America, in the light of the Viet Nam experience, continue to guarantee the integrity of its smaller allies against aggression?-the answer is a highly qualified yes. That answer is tempered still more by a mood of caution against commitment of American blood, by a desire for a realistic drawing of lines that define just where we stand. Deepest of all is the American desire to work out some way to peace and detente with the Communists, however long or tortuous that road might...
From the Barricades. Since last fall there have been a series of increasingly bitter street battles in Northern Ireland's two major cities, Belfast and Londonderry, and smaller but equally bloody clashes in villages as well. The latest round of strife began in Londonderry, which is Ulster's second largest city, with a population of 56,000, two-thirds Catholic. Youthful civil rights supporters staged a noon sit-down in the city's center, and a band of taunting Paisleyites appeared. When the youths tried to chase away their tormentors, the Paisleyites responded with stones, waving...