Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-currency loan of about $400 million that he needs for economic modernization. The Soviets might even revive demands that Russian troops be stationed on Czechoslovak soil, hoping that such a garrison could permanently discourage a Prague walkaway from the Communist alliance. Dubček might agree to admit token Soviet units to mollify Moscow...
...military installations, including nuclear facilities. The idea had not been favored by most U.S. military men, and the Russians rejected it as an espionage ploy. The Russians countered with a ground checkup system -which Eisenhower accepted in principle-but the idea fell through when Moscow would allow only three token look-sees a year. Today there is still no formal inspection procedure, although satellite surveillance and seismic detection devices have made it easier to keep track of nuclear installations and large detonations worldwide...
...Swan, a Detroit G.P. and president of the National Medical Association, who was a guest at the A.M.A. convention last week. But Swan points out that Negro doctors are still excluded from hospital-staff membership almost everywhere in the Deep South. In other regions, they are admitted only as token members. Negro specialists rarely receive referrals from white doctors. Black doctors who do manage to achieve staff status almost never move up into administrative positions. Those who practice privately must often arrange through white colleagues to have their patients admitted to a hospital. There, white doctors often take over...
...Mendel Rivers' South Carolinian fief, the voters do all but pay scutage. The First District's Democrats have loyally returned him to Congress for 28 years; Republicans have long since accepted his seignorial reign and run only occasional token candidates against...
...many cases," wrote Charles J. Hamilton '69 in a CRIMSON Supplement last October, "blacks are leaving behind their token presence in other undergraduate organizations for the sense of unity and expression found in an all-black organization...