Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinction could not have been more clear-cut: a young Northern liberal pitted against a middle-aged Southern conservative. Yet in the Senate leadership contest between Ted Kennedy and Russell Long, a number of members marked their secret ballots not on the basis of ideology or regional interest, but according to their personal ambitions, alliances, or animosities. Some notable deviations from the customary bloc pattern...
...members of the Council were picked from a wide range of experience." Mayer said. "Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers Union, are both on the Executive Committee...
...report came out of an investigation directed by John Schulz, an assistant law professor at the University of Southern California. The investigation was organized last spring by Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe at Any Speed, and lasted over the summer...
Married. Strom Thurmond, 66, U.S. Senator and former Governor of South Carolina, who rallied Southern support for Richard Nixon in last year's presidential election; and Nancy Moore, 22, a blue-eyed brunette beauty (Miss South Carolina of 1965), who met the Senator two summers ago while working in his Washington office; he for the second time; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Aiken...
After testing the system in four small Southern banks, First National demonstrated it to a group of U.S. bankers. The response exceeded expectations. Though prepared for only ten initial orders at most, First National has already won 22 contracts. New banks are joining the Dynabank system at the rate of two a day, as equipment becomes available. Eventually, First National hopes to draw banks throughout the U.S. into a computer network for exchanging information. Says H. Monty Osteen, one of the executives who helped develop the system: "To a large degree, management has been reluctant to use computers as anything...