Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strauss, 61, becomes the third proprietor of that trouble-ridden business in less than a year: Evan Dobelle, 34, former U.S. Chief of Protocol, headed the re-election committee for six months after it was formed last March, then was judged too lightweight; Tim Kraft, 38, Carter's assistant for political affairs, took over in September, then was judged too abrasive. Both will remain with the committee, Dobelle as a fund raiser and Kraft as director of field operations...
...Fort Carson army base in Colorado. But four out of five Klansmen are in the old Confederate states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. Most of the Klan members are blue-collar men with no more than three years of high school. About a third are women, usually the wives or girlfriends of male members. There are even a few Roman Catholic members, which is a sharp departure from the 1920s, when Klansmen hated Catholics almost as much as did black and Jews...
...never been a Marxist movement, and it is not one now. We are not enamored of what happens in the East bloc countries, and at the same time we don't think democracy exists in the West. We would have a lot more in common with the Third World...
...downfall of the Third Reich, however, did not halt the devaluation of gypsy lives. Though West Germany paid nearly $715 million in reparations to Israel and various Jewish organizations, gypsies as a group received nothing. In 1952, when the new West German government offered to pay survivors five deutsche marks (worth roughly $1.20) for each day they had spent in the camps, many illiterate gypsies simply signed away their claims for compensation in exchange for trifling sums. Gypsy activists have uncovered a case of a woman who received $10 for the death of her baby in Auschwitz...
...charges that it was being used excessively and indiscriminately in institutions that were little more than "shock mills." Between 1972 and 1977 in New York State, for example, use of ECT dropped by 38%. Across the nation, according to a 1978 report by the American Psychiatric Association, one-third of psychiatrists have reservations about the practice...