Word: supportables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must everyone who does not support a black candidate be labeled "racist"? Is every black candidate naturally better than every white one, regardless of accomplishments...
...facts are that I have repeatedly called for removal of politics from the Post Office Department in the past and that I issued a strong statement in support of the President's public postal corporation on the day Mr. Nixon sent his postal-reform message to the Congress...
...withdrawn. One South Vietnamese official recently told Secretary of State William Rogers: "It's like a man learning to ride a bicycle. We think we can do it, but you never know until the man running alongside takes his hand away." Thanks to better training, better equipment and massive support from U.S. air and artillery, the South Vietnamese are improving. But they are still no match for the North Vietnamese, especially in leadership and fighting zeal...
Died. James P. Warburg, 72, multimillionaire financier and author of dozens of books on U.S. foreign policy (Peace in Our Time?, 1940; The West in Crisis, 1959); of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn. Wealthy by birth, well placed in banking, Warburg had every reason to support the established order. Instead, he became an articulate advocate of new, often radical political maneuvers, assailing such elements of U.S. policy as the refusal to seat Communist China in the U.N., and America's stress on military rather than socioeconomic solutions to the cold...
...Clover. To support this conclusion, she darts around history hunting for examples like a bee in a clover field. Ancient Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, Tokyo in 1900, medieval Antwerp are all plundered for signs of stagnation or growth. But her key comparison is drawn from 19th century England. In the 1840s, says Jane Jacobs, Manchester looked like a model of progress and modernity. It had become a rich, gigantic industrial machine for cranking out textiles. By contrast, Birmingham then seemed outmoded. It was "a muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools, buttons, guns...