Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell at this stage where or how the Wallace role will affect the major parties, but it could tip the balance in several key states. In Texas, where a Democratic poll puts Humphrey a notch ahead of Nixon, Wallace at present has 26% of the vote. In Missouri, also a tight race, he has 22%. In Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Humphrey, according to the Democrats, is also slightly ahead, Wallace pulls...
During times of great ferment, of course, it is not always easy to tell the revolutionary from the Doer. Which of the two, for example, is Chicago Lawyer Saul Alinsky a self-styled professional radical who mobilizes slumdwellers to fight for their rights? Alinsky swears that he is a revolutionary, and yet by his own admission he works within the system. "I would destroy it if I knew of a better one," he says. "The problem is that I cant find a better...
...Corps, which deliberately sets out to instill self-confidence and self-sufficiency in its volunteers. It demands performances that the trainee may not have suspected he had in him. "We may drop a person with almost no money in some community," says Robert MacAlister, director of staff training, "and tell him to hack it for three or four days. We try to get people to realize their potential The operating principle is basically that a person can do anything he believes he can do." No gauge exists to measure the effect of this principle. But it is a fact...
...serious enough to affect the mission. Astronaut Eisele, 38, an Air Force major also making his first space mission, reported radio interference that sounded like a commercial. "I', getting a hot tip on some hostpital-insurance plan from some guy," he said. "Maybe they're trying to tell you something," a ground controller cracked...
...astronauts had missed only one of their scheduled operations-a live TV transmission from inside the craft. Seconds before the camera was to have been switched on, Schirra complained that the crew was running behind schedule because of several operations that had been added to the flight. "I tell you," he said testily, "this flight TV will be delayed without further discussion." Houston controllers quietly acceded and agreed to reschedule the TV for this week...