Word: stigmas
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M.I.T. student said yesterday that the system of student porters at 'Tech seems to work very well. They emphasized that no social stigma of any sort was attached...
...prompt action in Korea has helped remove the stigma of futility from the U.N. Even if the actual armed intervention was largely American, the spiritual and propaganda value of the Security Council was enormous. But that authorization was is much still to be done if the apparent upswing in the fortunes of the U. N. is to continue...
...only issue his opponents could dredge up was the old charge that Osorio, whose face resembles the broad, brown Indian features of ex-Dictator Maximiliano Martínez, is in fact Martínez' illegitimate son. In a country where little stigma is attached to bastardy, this campaign flopped dismally. Osorio denied the charge, explained good-humoredly: "All us Indians look alike...
...Negroes attended the New York Interracial Fellowship's fifth annual "race relations service." "The human race is a social solidarity," said Bishop William J. Walls of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. "The church will free its soul and hands only if it removes from itself the stigma that it is the most segregated institution in the United States ... By letting itself become the agent of separation and aloofness it has failed...
...Those who want to fight [their social stigma] do it in the only way they know how-shaking down the employer in one of 500 different ways," e.g., work stoppages, slowdowns, shakedowns. Imberman tells of a Detroit union head who went through weeks of nerve-snapping contract negotiations with the sour knowledge that his daughter had just been forced out of her sorority because her father was a labor leader. Says Imberman: "The impotence of the father to deal with such a situation is not unrelated to the fury with which he pursues his strike ends...