Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply wants to get out of politics before the roof falls in on Britain. His statement that he is resigning because of advanced age, lacks credibility--Wilson is only 60 years old. On the other hand, Wilson entered politics young and has been in the upper echelons of the Labour Party for more than a quarter of a century...
...November Guizar went on a two-week minority recruiting trip for the University. He termed it "a success," but added that "Chicano recruitment should not mean just going to the suburban high schools and talking to upper class Chicanos. I'd like to see them get out to Roosevelt High in Fresno, where people are who never thought of going to Harvard...
...Life on the military bases seems to have given the least day-to-day contact with local citizens. Whether contact was confined to the elites or to other Americans was up to the individual, the students claim. And though almost all had servants while abroad and lived among the upper-classes, they are quick to say that they were not exploitative, or Ugly Americans...
Malin also notes that the amount of financial aid given to foreign students has remained constant over the past few years. Proportionally more foreign students are on scholarship than nonforeign ones, since foreign families which maintain an upper middle class standard of living still may not be able to afford Harvard's tuition...
...statesman. Genial, pipe-smoking Democrat Mike Mansfield, Montana Senator since 1953 and his party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...