Word: races
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time magazine (Aug. 13, 1979) stated that these French groups are "proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich...New Right partisans hold that individuals and races are divided by insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley and Edward O. Wilson." A report in the New York Times (Sept. 26, 1979) on the assassination of a French-Jewish leftist, remarked about the "emergence of a group of intellectuals calling themselves...
...first mile and a half, Beckford, who needed penicillin yesterday because of an inflamed throat, kept up with the leaders, boasting her fastest split time of the season at 5:05. Up until about two and a quarter miles into the race, Beckford sped along in the top 20. It was all downhill from there, as the fast start crept up on her and she began to fade...
Mississippi had a somewhat more decorous race. William Winter, 56, lean and bespectacled, lost two previous gubernatorial races to more colorful and conservative candidates. This time, Winter stressed his experience as a former state legislator, state treasurer, state tax collector and Lieutenant Governor. Since Winter has contributed articles on Mississippi history to academic journals, his intellectual side was balanced with a TV commercial showing him firing a pistol on a state highway-patrol range...
...Citizens Party cannot hope to elect its nominee; by jabbing at the tired programs of the major parties and launching fresh ideas of its own, it can help keep Kennedy honest and save the presidential race from degenerating into an empty contest of personalities...
...only solution to racial violence in Boston is for members of the black community to have the right to armed self-defense, two panelists said at a conference discussion on race relations...