Word: walked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contains semi-progressive Atlanta and black legislators like Julian Bond. South Carolina has Storm Thurmond, Louisiana has Leander Perez, and Arkansas and Tennessee have their residual rednecks. But for over-all misery--that combination of systematic oppression and debilitating poverty that makes black lives bleak--Alabama wins in a walk...
...emphasizing "law and order" himself, but Agnew is doing it in much tougher terms. "Nixon and Agnew are riding the right issue?trouble in the streets," said a Maryland Republican. "It's the big issue. It outruns everything, especially with women voters. They're scared to death to walk down the street any more. But what a hell of an issue to have to run on." According to a Democratic strategist, the G.O.P. hopes to score victories in Dixie by telling Southerners through Agnew they can get what Wallace promises, but without Wallace. Nixon's lieutenants deny the charge...
...Portland, Ore., the building that once housed the headquarters of Eu gene McCarthy's volunteers is now the campaign headquarters for Nixon and Agnew. Directly across the street is the Humphrey-Muskie headquarters, a 70-foot walk for any dispossessed McCarthyites in search of a cause. But last week, in Portland and across the na tion, few were taking the stroll...
Measure of Merit. Shanker concedes that there are bad teachers in the system and insists that his union is as interested in improving standards as anyone else. "You walk into a classroom," he says, "and you see the same teacher and the same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." But this, he says, happens because teachers "have been castrated," and the way to improve them is to give them more power. "Teachers are no longer willing to be supervised by people who have less professional competence than they...
...frames, subtly suggesting the ax about to fall. A curiously shaped book, its ten pages cut in lacy patterns and stippled with rainbow dots, contains Samaras' own moody, erotically Joycean fantasies (even Grove Press, he claims, refused to print them). Samaras' most celebrated boxes are his huge, walk-in mirrored rooms (TIME, May 3), and his latest one will be a nine-foot-tall tower. An exercise in claustrophobia, it will force visitors to shrink as they climb its inner stairs. When they reach the reflecting ceiling, they will find that it has no exit. "There...