Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington headquarters was in a state of chaos-campaign buttons were in short supply, the phones and elevators unreliable-but the Vice President himself was making harmonious headway toward the Democratic nomination. Maryland's 49-vote delegation adopted a unit rule over the protests of Kennedy and McCarthy supporters, virtually assuring Humphrey of all 49 votes. In a brief visit to New York City, Humphrey sat down to luncheon with a group of Wall Streeters, walked off with pledges of some $750,000 in campaign contributions. With backing from such moneymen as Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs...
...United States, population is a familial problem, not a national problem. This is not to discourage research and policy making at the national level, but to encourage consideration of the family as the unit of suffering in cases of "excess fertility" and the unit of persuasion crucial to the success of national population programs. Too often, family planning literature deals in descriptions (sensational statistics on pollution, living density, educational inadequacies) that are not significantly relevant to what may be called the "unit of persuasion," the family and the individual. People are rarely motivated to make important personal choices by abstract...
...beyond the age of the wireless. Given the tinny speakers in TV sets, producers feel that it is futile to sink money into new studio sound equipment. TV manufacturers argue that a set with a quality sound system would double the size as well as the price of a unit. Besides they say, most people are so indifferent to sound that they are not even aware that many sets have tone-control knobs Still, the fact that thousands of viewers also own high-powered stereo rig: suggests that they may well object to the feedback, spotty pickups or imbalances that...
...unit, consisting of Baker, Shaw, Doug Hardin, and Tim McLoone, is topseeded in that event...
Such sloppy reporting on the part of the CRIMSON can only serve to damage the credibility of the most significant and far reaching statement of a programmatic nature ever made by a governmental unit on American race relations...