Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What there's been is a curious, painful re-examination of the [McGovern Commission] reforms. [which drafted new guidelines for selection of convention delegates, thereby increasing the number of women, minority and youth delegates.] I would say that most of the energy of the Democratic Party since the '72 election has centered on a struggle to re-examine and possibly rewrite the reforms. But if I read the recommendations that they finally agreed on correctly, what they said was that the '72 reforms were essentially right. I don't have any quarrels with what I assume--what I believe...
...immediate cause was an ignominious defeat at the hands of Spain in the European basketball championships four weeks ago, an event that had been won by the Soviet Union for 18 years straight. But, said the Communist youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the real roots of the problem lay in the fact that the players had lost their proletarian humility. Since their stunning gold-medal win in Munich, it wrote, the players had turned into overconfident performers whose once brilliant strategies had become "unimaginative and stereotyped." Soviet Basketball Federation officials, the paper charged, "created a climate of total permissiveness...
Norton, who has been active in Scouting for 18 years, was honored for "distinguished service to boyhood" at the annual meeting of the BSA's Northeast Region. The Silver Antelope Award was presented on behalf of the 1.5 million youth and adult Scouting members in the Northeast Region...
Michael G. Sico Jr. has been campaigning on a platform consisting almost exclusively of a pledge to hire more Cambridge residents in the School Department. Sico has been active in youth recreation groups, and has a fair amount of support in the Strawberry Hill section of Cambridge...
...peace initiative, the construction of low-cost housing, a city affirmative action program, stricter antipollution legislation, prosecution of war researchers at the university, the elimination of sexist books from school libraries, guaranteed adequate severance pay to workers in firms leaving Berkeley to escape unionization, the construction of bicycle paths, youth hostels and more parks, and even the addition of long cords on all public telephones so that people in wheelchairs and children could reach them more easily...