Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walters' weadily wecognizable delivewy (WR substitution, speech therapists call it). She was allowed to display her interviewing talents with Sadat two nights in a row, with a Pennsylvania health official (about fallout in the state from a Chinese nuclear test last month) and with several ABC correspondents. She spoke to all of them over a 24-in. television screen on the show's aseptic-looking silvery gray set. Walters also introduced a somewhat stagy filmed report on how to locate runaway fathers, part of the show's new emphasis on self-help information, and she managed some...
...Third World's case was made most passionately by World Bank President Robert S. McNamara. In a long address, McNamara spoke eloquently of a need for more aid to a largely unseen population of "severely deprived human beings struggling to survive in a set of squalid and degrading circumstances." McNamara urged wealthy countries to increase the World Bank's capital (presently about $40 billion) and annual lending capacity ($5.8 billion...
...scintillating, eloquent, and a warm feeling spread through the crowd as she spoke," a man at her elbow said...
...Kendall, chairman of the Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment, and Agnes J. Smith, co-chairman of the Committee to Stop ERA, spoke on ballot Question...
...began in a reservation high school in 1969, the year that Edward Kennedy, in a report by the Senate special subcommittee on Indian education, declared that the "first American" had become the "last American" in terms of employment and education. One-third of all adult Navajos neither wrote nor spoke English. Dropout rates were twice the national average, and because of the systematic denigration of their culture, Indian children, more than any other minority group, believed themselves to be below average in intelligence. Explains N.C.C. President Thomas Atcitty: "For too long we were told our culture was inferior and should...