Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...evenly matched are the nominees, so skilled in political engineering, so equal in oratorical dueling (Kennedy has decided to make plenty of TV appearances on the simple theory that he is better looking than Nixon), that the election may well be won or lost on the basis of events. Kennedy would gain an edge if the nation slipped into recession before November. Likewise he would gain if the Administration ran into medium-grade foreign policy troubles, e.g., neutralization of any current ally. Nixon stands to gain from any sharp increase in tension, e.g., a new Communist thrust, a step...
Civil Rights. In its sweeping promises of R'ahts Government-enforced equality for Negroes, the civil rights plank reaches far beyond any previous party platform, Democratic or Republican. "The time has come," it says, "to assure equal access for all Americans to all areas of community life, including voting booths, schoolrooms, jobs, housing and public facilities." If the platform is translated into action, every school district in the country will undertake "at least first-step compliance" with the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision by 1963, the xooth anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Attorney General...
...spur interest, a law's proper name is not revealed until long after students have grown skilled at using it. Meanwhile, they make up their own names. A class may find itself with a Billy Smith Law, or using the symbol a, which one student invented for "approximately equal to." Teachers are expected to lead students as far as they will explore...
...people should not forget that after their country's collapse they received help through the sacrifices of other nations. We shall be prepared to recognize our obligations and make a deliberate sacrifice to help other peoples." Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano added that "development policy must be given equal status with our Eastern policy and our European policy." Said Socialist Deputy Heinrich Deist: "We, in our economic wonderland with its booming business, should be ashamed of the fact that we are still using the revenues of American [Marshall Plan] aid for internal purposes. A courageous decision is necessary...
...Submarines. When he thought he was being ignored, Rod complained to Congressmen. Says he: "All other things being equal, the average military procurement office would rather give a contract to a big firm because he thinks it is safer and he takes less personal risk. If the contract doesn't work out he always has the excuse that the big firm is well known and well established and should have performed better...