Word: equalizing
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They are, in almost every case, the discontented, a classification that crosses ethnic, social and income barriers. Typically, outside the South anyway, they are factory workers or others in low-to middle-income brackets who are tired of being told that Negroes have equal rights. "I guess I'm what you might call a racist," explains Joe Galbraith, a millwright at Ford's Rouge complex outside Detroit. "I've lived with Negroes. I've slept with them. I've fought with them. And I've had it. These people want everything for nothing. They...
...that, the FCC does have considerable power, however reluctant it is to wield it. A quasi-judicial body created by Congress, the commission issues and can revoke the licenses of all broadcasters. It can bring pressure against a station that does not grant equal time to political candidates. Under its "fairness doctrine," it tries generally to make sure that a station's programs provide a "broad spectrum of views." It can punish with fines or get a "cease and desist" order if a station does not comply with the specific rules...
From childhood you have told us that America is built on the principle that all men are created equal, but you cannot hide from us the vast inequalities of our society. We have only to look around us to see that institutions like Harvard still exist mainly for the sons and daughters of the white upper middle classes. We have grown up with the civil rights struggle, and we know that our black brethren still face indifference, abuse, or even death when they stand up for what we once naively thought were God-given rights. Our teachers and our textbooks...
Clearly, some of the competitors would have been better off at sea level. In the 10,000 meters, for example, none of the first three finishers even man aged to equal the Olympic qualifying standard. But in most of the other events, the thin air was obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year...
...genre may have only 998 lives. The star of the film is Michael Caine (Alfie, The Ipcress File), who has made a profitable career out of playing ingratiating, low-keyed bounders. This time, he plays an ingratiating, low-keyed jewel thief who creeps up on baubles and boudoirs with equal ingenuity. It is the kind of role that Caine can do in his sleep. The difficulty is that by now much of the audience may be tempted to doze along with...