Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will Everyone Here Kindly Step to the Rear and Let a Winner Lead the Way" wafted down to the back of the hall. A small, bald-headed, ruddy-faced man who said he was a farmer from northern Middlesex County manned a desk full of nomination petitions at the doorway. One reporter, somewhat uncharitably, said the farmer was "dressed in a smartly-cut Robert Hall suit." Sitting next to the farmer was a cripple, who had a slick DA hair-cut and a black leather jacket. His crutches lay on the floor. "We've got to get Governor Wallace...
Thus last week, after ten years of firm though benevolent military rule, Thailand promulgated a long-delayed new constitution and took the first, if hesitant, step toward a return to representative government. Like the ceremony itself, the constitution is more show than substance: it does not necessarily mean the end of the military regime or, for that matter, even of mar tial law, under which Thailand has been ruled for a decade. Only the day before the ceremony, General Praphas Charusathien, 55, strongman of a regime in which he holds the posts of Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and army commander...
Although the new A.M.A. resolution is a step in the right direction, it will probably be years before Negro physicians and surgeons achieve professional equality. "The conditions faced by black doctors-and patients-have improved in recent years," says Dr. Lionel Swan, a Detroit G.P. and president of the National Medical Association, who was a guest at the A.M.A. convention last week. But Swan points out that Negro doctors are still excluded from hospital-staff membership almost everywhere in the Deep South. In other regions, they are admitted only as token members. Negro specialists rarely receive referrals from white doctors...
What happened was that this guy they call El Cordobés, who is the bullfighting champion of Spain, sort of a Sugar Ray Robinson-type with flashy clothes and cars and goodness knows how many mill in the bank, was out there doing a fancy two-step with this bull about the size of a Volkswagen, when all of a sudden another guy climbed into the ring. His name was Miguelin; he was a rank contender, but he thought he ought to be champ. So what did Miguelin do? He strolled up to El Cordobés' bull...
...almost entirely white, and its pastorate is largely traditionalist in outlook. The Reformed Church-many of its oldest congregations are still known as Dutch Reformed-is strong in the East and Midwest, also has a predominantly white, middle-class membership. If the union is approved, the logical next step would be merger with the 3.3 million-member, liberal United Presbyterian Church, which has made clear its desire for further ecumenical discussions...