Word: virtually
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Nancy Moran views the MFDP in a distinctly more limited environment. Her day by day account of the intense debate that occurred within the MFDP over the tactics to be employed at the Democratic convention reveals the virtual vacuum of leadership that seems to be developing within the Negro community. By the end of the convention, the MFDP delegates had effectively rejected both the advice of the Northern leaders and the leaders themselves, Miss Moran notes, and she questions whether there is any effective Negro leadership at present...
Nancy Moran views the MFDP in a distinctly more limited environment. Her day by day account of the intense debate that occurred within the MFDP over the tactics to be employed at the Democratic convention reveals the virtual vacuum of leadership that seems to be developing within the Negro community. By the end of the convention, the MFDP delegates had effectively rejected both the advice of the Northern leaders and the leaders themselves, Miss Moran notes, and she questions whether there is any effective Negro leadership at present...
...odds-on favorite for the presidential blessing was still Humphrey, who wanted the job badly, and who was trying to be as circumspect as possible under the circumstances. That was pretty hard to do, considering that his supporters turned the Minnesota delegation's Atlantic City headquarters into a virtual campaign command post, and considering also that somewhere, somebody must have had to get scores of signs and standards and balloons ready for the big spontaneous demonstration that might erupt on the convention floor...
Despite DC's virtual disappearance from general use, engineers have lived with the nagging knowledge that oneway current is better for the longer hauls. DC transmission lines carry more power and are cheaper to build. Their smooth stream of electricity is easier to control and to blend with current from other sources in a network. Trouble is, DC cannot be handled by transformers; what was needed to fit it for the big-time was a practical method of manufacturing it from high-voltage AC current at the generator end of the line, and of converting it back...
Perhaps the most striking feature of Harlem's virtual occupation is that the vast majority of the police are white. The negro patrolman is not absent but he is a signficant minority...