Word: unites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intended to circumvent the political manipulations of party leaders at state conventions, are themselves often open to distortion. Some, like Oregon's open primary, are sufficiently broad-based to reflect more or less accurately the voters' will. Yet the results of primaries can be nullified by the unit rule, which applies in a number of states and binds all of the state's convention delegates to vote in a bloc at least through the first ballot. Thus imposition of the unit rule can deny a candidate who barely missed winning a majority in the primary any delegate...
That shock of recognition-at the traumas of Viet Nam, riots in the cities, assassinations, the unresponsiveness of Congress-has led many to exaggerate their own political virtue. McCarthy loyalists have passionately protested the imposition of the unit rule in contests in which they have lacked a majority, but they have been just as ruthless as their opponents in invoking the unit rule when it worked in their favor. While the new politics of McCarthy has a refreshing directness, his followers have yet to establish that they themselves are above the petty manipulations that they condemn...
...group from the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts brought in a suggestion for a community police service corps; they already had some 60 boys and girls, ages ten to 18, who wanted to help educate the community on the problems of law enforcement. Reddin immediately sponsored the unit, and Deputy Chief James Fisk scrounged around for office space, equipment and uniforms...
Avram, 38, who is an assistant professor at Downstate College of Medicine as well as head of his hospital's mechanical-kidney unit, began his economical setup with Army-surplus water tanks for mixing, storing and delivering dialysate fluid to his eleven artificial kidneys. He uses gravity feed to save pump costs. He has fluid strengths tested manually instead of by sophisticated and expensive gadgets. How safe is this penny-pinching corner-cutting? Losing one patient a year, the unit has a 3% mortality rate, against a national average of 20% reported...
Avram has applied for a state grant of $30,000 to expand his unit to a capacity of 42 patients. Thousands of kidney-failure victims are dying each year, he insists, for lack of such facilities. A further drawback is that each patient is tied down to within easy reach of his own unit. Avram looks forward to the day when there will be "dialysis hotels" or "human Laundromats" where patients can check in at night, wherever they happen to be, get hooked up and dialysed, and leave in the morning...