Word: alterity
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...Democratic Mayor Hugh Addonizio has been locked in struggle with the United Community Corporation, the agency that took control of the city's anti-poverty program. When Addonizio warned the U.C.C. against "empire building," its president, Rutgers Law Dean C. Willard Heckel, vowed that the agency "would alter the power structure of the city." Many politicians fear that is no idle boast. In Los Angeles, it took the Watts riots to persuade Democratic Mayor Samuel Yorty to accept even seven representatives of "disadvantaged" areas on his 35-member poverty board...
...without consulting them. The committees undoubtedly will try to make McNamara's life difficult early in the new year, when he brings his fiscal 1967 defense budget to Capitol Hill. But, as in past fights over bombers and bases, Congress will find that it has little power to alter McNamara's decisions and even less inclination to deny him the $1.7 billion he will request for the new bomber...
...dive, transfer John Friedman will have to fill the gap left by Eastern Champion Dan Mahoney's graduation and injuries to Charles Vines and Pete Alter. Only in the backstroke is the team without a strong contender...
...Government officials with considerable experience in Viet Nam, have turned out well-researched articles on Communist control of the Viet Cong, on how North Viet Nam broke the Geneva agreements. But the magazine offers no dogmatic solution of its own. "We want to show that extremes are not the alter natives in Viet Nam," says Executive Vice Chairman Gilbert Jonas...
...only almost always. Under two condition a forth-right demonstration can alter public opinion without inflaming it. First, the protestors must advocate precise and realistic proposals. Second, the public itself must be sufficiently unsure and confused to listen. For the November 27th March on Washington, these conditions exist...