Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...public seemed to be getting the Johnson unity-candidate message. On his arrival in Spokane, he was serenaded by a group of Yakima Valley Junior College students singing a song that a student had composed for the occasion. Sample stanza...
...bewildering array of organizations with names like Youth and Student Struggle Council, Committee for Freedom of Expression, National Conference for Reopening of Japan-China Relations. They provide the intellectual leadership for such huge outfits as Nikkyoso, the 600,000-strong teachers union; Zengakuren, a nationwide student pressure group; and, most important of all, the ultra-left-wing labor union federation called Sohyo (3^ million members), which has backed many of the recent demonstrations...
...statistical yardstick" to measure the results of mental health programs, "since we aren't buying merchandise." Some businessmen still cling to the old idea that the worker's personal problems are his own business. But, as Dr. John Maclver, fulltime psychiatrist for America Fore Loyalty Group, says, "We have already established in fact that a psychiatric program in industry is not only feasible but high priority...
Some 2,000,000 citizens of the Belgain Congo were in the throes of their first election. Voters did not seem to think that balloting was enough. Spear-carrying Baluba tribesmen chased Luluas through the streets of Léopoldville. One angry group descended on a police post and stoned the cops. In five weeks of electioneering, 57 people were dead...
...half-naked, illiterate black voters had no idea what the candidates were talking about. There were 65 parties in the field. The Abako party's crafty Joseph Kasavubu sought to split off his Lower Congo region and make it autonomous. Secession-minded Moise Tshombe's Conakat group, 1,000 miles away in Elisabethville, was demanding the same privilege for its mineral-rich Katanga province, which produces 65% of all the Congo's income. Each was fighting Paul Bolya and his moderate National Progress Party as well as the militant group of Albert Kalonji...