Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stretch the permissible budgets, the bill requires broadcasters to charge candidates the lowest available commercial rates. In a provision that will make it more difficult for presidential candidates to avoid campaign debates, the measure permanently voids the equal-time section of the Federal Communications Act of 1934. That provision, which will remain in effect for lesser offices, has made it impossible for networks and stations to offer debate time to major candidates without playing host to minor-party candidates...
...system fails to respond to all normal means and channels," Pediatrician Benjamin Spock told a gathering of 2,500 University of Hartford students last week, "then you must become more dramatic in your tactics. You know that the majority of American people do not give a damn about granting equal rights to blacks, poor people and other minority groups." Spock nonetheless urged his audience to avoid violence and said he did not believe that violent revolution was possible in the U.S. To Spock, 67, there is a better way. Said he: "I will work within the system for changes...
...than 15% of the nation's auto market, American Motors has brought out the Gremlin, General Motors has introduced the Vega, and Ford the Pinto. In anxious counterattack, Germany's Volkswagen and Japan's Toyota are mounting an assault with new models at prices that remain equal to or lower than those of competitive U.S. cars...
...racially mixed, and while he might anticipate familiar challenges I felt that a stimulating balance would prevail. "Are the blacks gonna picket me?" Styron asked on arrival. My God, I hoped not. "They picket me everywhere I go," he said a bit wearily. We passed a pleasant afternoon doing equal damage to a fifth of Scotch and our respective livers...
...District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Otis M. Smith, a member of the Office of General Counsel for General Motors Corp.; Judge Edward F. Bell of the Wayne County Circuit Court, Detroit, Mich., president of the National Bar Association; and Donald L. Hollowell, regional director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and former private attorney to the Rev. Martin Luther King...