Word: backlasher
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...pushed through a law even stiffer than the new federal statute. While the federal law will cover some 80% of the nation's housing by 1970, the Milwaukee measure, effective immediately, grants far fewer exceptions. The question now is whether the city, in the face of inevitable white backlash, can effectively enforce the ordinance...
...Lyndon B. Johnson (Coward-McCann) but also for those who had hoped for easy pickings from a crop of anti-Johnsonia. Even a sympathetic study, the forthcoming A Very Personal Presidency by TIME White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, stands in need of extensive updating. Taking account of the backlash of sentiment for the President, New American Library has already dropped plans for a paperback edition of the cartoon anthology L.B.J. Lampooned, will retitle Larry L. King's My Hero L.B.J. and Other Dirty Stories. Simon and Schuster's Quotations from Chairman L.B.J. is suddenly mustier than...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw in its sordid lot with the apostles of non-violence last night, naming In the Heat of the Night best picture, its star Rod Steiger best actor, and Sterling Silliphant's script best original screenplay. The chief victim of the backlash was Bonnie and Clyde, which for the sensitive members of the Academy conjured up visions of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown...
...White "backlash" is an important new force in Wisconsin politics. The 1960 census listed 2.4 per cent of the state's population as "non-white." Over 80 per cent of this group is Negro, with 15 per cent Menomonie Indian. Non-whites make up 3.2 per cent of urban areas and 6.7 per cent of central cities. Since 70,000 of the state's Negroes live in such cities, and only 5,000 in the rest of the state, the race issue has not yet confronted many Wisconsinites. One-tenth of the counties have no significant Negro population...
...time the Social Democrats of Germany ackowledged the reformist nature of their politics, and dropped the revolutionary rhetoric, they had lost many moderate supporters. Also, the working classes, disillusoned, turned away from them. They therefore suffered a backlash from both extremes...