Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symptom of the durable opposition to forced integration came last week in Albany. By a 41-to-19 vote, the New York state senate approved a bill that in effect sought to ban bussing. Supporters of the bill called the vote a victory for the "neighborhood school concept." But Brooklyn's Negro Assemblyman Bertram Baker, chairman of the Education Committee, who bottled up a similar bill previously, pronounced that the senate version "does not have a ghost of a chance" of getting to the assembly floor for a vote...
...attorney general contends in his first book, The Challenge of Change (Little, Brown), this popular image of Republicanism should be of concern to all Americans, for the two-party system is at stake. "Not to be alarmed about the status of the Republican Party," he writes, is a "symptom of impending rigor mortis...
...further. In destructive family situations, says the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, professor of Christian social ethics at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., "divorce is the good thing to do: not merely excusable, but rather the greatest of all goods. The divorce rate is a social symptom of increased respect for personal freedom and for genuine marriage commitment...
...Some young Americans can ... live without a guarantee that they have made the best or the only choice: and this capacity to make commitments without guarantees is a prime symptom of strength of character. But others--perhaps most young Americans--undergo a period of confusion beforehand, and often seek escapes from their freedom...
...Finkelstein of the SEATO Medical Research Laboratory suggested that it might be possible to make another type of vaccine. This would work against a chemical poison produced by cholera bacilli that seem to trigger the damage in the intestinal wall. This impairment in turn cause cholera's devastating symptom: the most severe diarrhea known to man, in which an adult may lose up to 15 quart a day while running little or no fever...