Word: white
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Despite party differences, and the intriguing fact that most of this year's delegates (82% of the Republicans, for example) will be attending their first convention, past statistics paint the portrait of a kind of composite delegate. He is a white, middle-class male of about 50. He is more than likely a college graduate. He lives well: the median income for Democratic delegates in 1964 was over $18,000 a year and for Republicans over $20,000. About 10% of the Democrats and 14% of the Republicans earned more than...
...Smith is slim, white-haired, countrified in speech, friendly in manner. He publishes the tiny (circ. 2,000) weekly Argus in the midstate town (pop. 7,400) of Robinson. He golfs and fishes, is a Rotarian and a former statewide vice president of the Elks. Fascinated newsmen describe him as the healer who wound up as Illinois Republican chairman in 1960 because, in a party ripped and bloodied with faction, "he was the only man nobody...
...brought before the court in the future, but it still looked odd for a judge, in effect, to "take the Fifth." Though he was open and candid about his relations with the President, even his friends were dismayed by the extent to which Justice Fortas had dou bled as White House adviser. Nor was Fortas' case helped by comments from Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who said that the Justice's critics were motivated by "political partisanship and, in some cases, opposition to civil rights advances." Others claimed, with less reason, that anti-Semitism was involved in the opposition...
Criticism last week focused on a parks and recreation commission scandal. Three weeks ago, Yorty was stung by the conviction of two of his harbor commissioners for bribery, while two others await trial. And the criticism goes beyond his commissioners to the mayor himself. Negroes and white liberals claim that Yorty failed to move adequately to solve ghetto problems after the 1965 Watts riots...
Prices in Biafra have skyrocketed. A chicken that cost 70? before the war now brings $5.50. The government and the missionaries are advising the people to eat rats, dogs, lizards, even white ants to get some protein into their systems. Gasoline is rationed and electricity is in short supply...