Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand at the whirling hub of decision. Yet they are widely described as mere tools of the true decision makers. The great scholars of American politics have largely ignored them: neither Tocqueville nor Lord Bryce nor Sir Denis Brogan take them very seriously. Yet these seemingly faceless men and women are now at the focus of national attention...
...will be lawyers or judges, against two out of ten Republicans; similarly, the Democrats will have many more union members and officials. Only about one-quarter of the Democrats will be businessmen, compared with one-third of the Republicans. About 20% of the Republican delegates and alternates will be women-almost twice the Democrats' proportion. Though one in every nine Americans is a Negro, less than 5% of those attending the Democratic Convention will be Negro, and less than 3% of the Republicans...
...Million Cocktail. At the Havana Libre, formerly the Hilton Hotel, the clientele still is cosmopolitan, but the tone has changed. Chunky Russian technicians jostle wispy North Koreans in the elevator. In the lobby, Havana women, necklines plunging down their backs in the style of a decade ago, click across the marble floors to the tune of Heroic Guerrilla played on the p.a. system...
...Caravelle jets after treating the detoured travelers well and giving them a sightseeing trip around Algiers. Twelve Israeli passengers and the crew of ten were held along with the plane, possibly as hostages for hundreds of Arab guerrillas currently in Israeli custody, though ten women and children were released at week's end. The hijackers were quickly identified as Palestinian Arab commandos attached to the Jordan-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They were equipped with Iranian and Indian passports...
...raying joints to look at cartilage-bone defects. A great deal of work remains to be done, so 18 Little People arrived days ahead of time. They were admitted to the hospital for detailed tests by orthopedists, ophthalmologists, and otolaryngologists. Especially concerned were the gynecologists, for dwarf women's babies usually have to be delivered by caesarean section. Of the dozen conventions the Little People have had, this was by far the most medically oriented. To handle all the examinations, a temporary hospital room was set up in the Lord Baltimore Hotel, convention headquarters...