Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...thing for the University to maintain an attitude that this is a civil problem, and they won't protect you. But they took their lists and confidential files and helped the police. busting kids for the scrappings in their pipes. This University is no neutral institution," one freshman said...
...wavy-haired Boston lawyer is the executive director and general counsel of the two-year-old Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, the biggest and by far the most aggressive of five unions representing factions of the nation's 16,000 civil service controllers. Ostensibly, PATCO members left their radarscopes last week to emphasize claims that their facilities are understaffed and that the controllers themselves are overworked and underpaid (though some of them gross $21,000 a year). One key factor nobody thought to mention was ambition-Bailey...
Unquestionably, it was time for Richard Nixon to be heard from on the subject of school desegregation. The Administration's attempt to delay court-ordered desegregation in Mississippi, the firing of a determined liberal who headed HEW's civil rights division, the President's own repeated criticism of busing children to force integration-all had raised confusion about just where the White House stood on one of the nation's most serious and emotion-laden issues. In an 8,000-word statement, the President last week delivered his message: desegregation yes; integration no. Where official barriers...
Nearly a century ago, the era of Reconstruction after the Civil War ended with the Compromise of 1877. Southern Democrats broke an electoral deadlock and allowed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to become President in exchange for removal of federal troops from the last two occupied Confederate states, Louisiana and South Carolina. Now President Nixon has proclaimed the Compromise of 1970 in order to soothe the South and placate resentful whites elsewhere. By political measurements, he is accurately responding to a prevailing mood. While the President might have renewed his dramatic post-election "bring us together" promise in a television address...
...Panic. The report recommends the abolition of the ICC, as well as the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Maritime Commission, so that all three can be replaced by a single agency. Such an agency would be able to set a coherent national transportation policy, relying less on regulation and more on the free market to set rates. It would sharpen competition among companies in all forms of transport...