Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reacting at least partially to unfavorable reviews of his book, The Making of a President, 1968, White attacked the "increasing concentration of the cultural pattern of the U.S. in fewer hands. You can take a compass with a one-mile radius and put it down at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan and you have control of 95% of the entire opinion-and influence-making in the U.S." On William F. Buckley's TV program, Firing Line, White suggested breaking up the networks. "Let's say we can rear back and pass a miracle...
...feminism parallels the black movement in many ways. Both are encumbered, for example, by a huge fifth column-for blacks, the Uncle Toms; for women, Aunt Tabbies, also known as Doris Days. Like the blacks, the feminists too are asking, with some success, that their "hidden history," the story of women's rights, be taught in schools and colleges. The law school at N.Y.U. has inaugurated a course devoted entirely to the legal problems of women, including divorce law. (Law is one profession that is attracting increasing numbers of women as well as blacks, both groups eager to promote...
...Americans are female, women face many of the problems of a minority. Only 1% of the nation's engineers are women, 3% of its lawyers, 7% of its doctors. For the same jobs, women's pay is often less than half that of men, and nearly one-fifth of employed women with a B.A. have jobs in such categories as clerks, factory workers and cooks. Moreover, the status of American women is, in many ways, deteriorating...
...Coast Guard and Brown were fourth and fifth, with point totals barely greater than Harvard's. Skippering the Crimson to their narrow advantage over those two teams were Jeff Storer. Abbott Reeve, and Joe Worth...
Villanova coach Jumbo Elliott pointed out the night before the race that three others among his best harriers had injuries. Don Walsh and Dave Wright, who finished second and fifth respectively, were not in top condition. Walsh had shin splints and Wright was suffering from sprained ligaments. Elliott said. Chris Mason had a pulled leg musele but finished 28th...