Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...worked first for Civil Rights Lawyer Donald Hollowell, who successfully sued to open the University of Georgia to black students. In 1962, as state field secretary for the N.A.A.C.P., Jordan led a boycott that forced stores in Atlanta to hire blacks. Two years later he became director of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project. Traveling almost constantly, from big city ghetto to impoverished hamlet, he urged blacks to set aside their fears of white retaliation and register to vote. By 1968 the South had nearly 2 million new black voters, the number of black elected officials...
...neither candidate lit a fire, that was a fitting next-to-last chapter to the long, dreary pre-convention campaign. The face that started in the snows preceding the Iowa precinct caucuses of Jan. 21 had drawn a crowded field of candidates and in the early going, some surprising turnouts by the voters. But the voters proved remarkably hard to predict. On the Democratic side, Ted Kennedy won the blue-collar and the black vote by a heavy margin in Philadelphia but lost both on April 22 in Pittsburgh, on the opposite side of Pennsylvania. In New York, voters disenchanted...
...further indication of voter disenchantment. In California, for example, late polls showed Carter and Kennedy tied at 33% each, but the real significance was that both had dropped from April, when Kennedy had 42% and Carter 39%; the only gains have been scored by "uncommitted." Says Pollster Mervin Field: "There will be no enthusiasm for the victor, no matter who wins...
Otis: I'm within seven months of coming from a field command in West Germany and dealing with our soldiers on a day-to-day basis. They are of good quality. They can do the job with the equipment that they've got. They're trainable. For our units in Europe, the training is more demanding than it was five years ago, and the soldiers are responding every bit as well and in some cases better. Though the equipment we are fielding is getting very complicated, we are building in a simple means of operating and repairing...
...loss of seniors Julie Brynteson, Stefi Baum, Ellen Hart, Sally Kinsberg, goalie Wendy Carle, Marcia Hamelin and manager Maura Costin will leave large gaps all over the field...