Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Unlike Nixon, Kennedy and his fellow Democratic Senators have known what they wanted for some time. They admit quite candidly that they want to pass all the bills the President vetoed during the last eight years, and quite a few more besides. They want to see what the Federal government can do for the unemployed, the Negro, the slum-dweller and the old man (not the "senior citizen"), if it really puts its mind and money to it. The Democrats do not, it appears, regard GOP warnings that this kind of behavior reduces the freedom of the individual with...
...equivalents of high school and apply to universities. Even they will get part-time vocational training in field or factory to learn "the delights of labor"-and incidentally, hedge the state's bet on their brains. The universities and top technical institutes are so overcrowded that they can admit only about one in four secondary school graduates. Result: a potentially dangerous class of frustrated aspirants who are "useless" to the state, especially since World War II cut the Soviet birth rate so sharply that Russia faces a shortage of skilled labor throughout...
...jumped into the battle for civil rights. Between teaching and setting up the first formal civil rights course in any U.S. law school, Nabrit argued discrimination cases in eleven states and the District of Columbia. He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas. In 1954, joining Howard-trained Attorney Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court. Nabrit helped win the ruling against public-school segregation...
...established journalistic practice. Says Horace Sutton: "Since when have you seen a theater critic like Brooks Atkinson scrambling in line to buy a seat for the second balcony?" Sutton, with far more justification than most, maintains that no one tells him what to write. But others of his genre admit to an abiding fact of the travel editor's life. "Half of my job is public relations," says the San Francisco Chronicle's Polly Noyes. "Even for the agencies I don't like, I try to get news. If they can't make a story...
With the shift in state populations came a sweeping decline in urban populations. Most major U.S. cities lost citizens to the suburbs, but none wanted to admit it. San Francisco schoolchildren skipped home carrying little white slips of paper urging parents to "get counted" if they had missed the census. New York City's tabloids carried coupons for uncounted citizens to fill in and mail. Cleve land city fathers dispatched building inspectors to ferret out anyone who might have slipped by the federal census takers...