Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beans-half black and half white-and somebody scoops up 100 of them, he will almost always draw half black and half white, within a 3% margin of error. Gallup views the nation as a big bowl of beans. On a strictly random basis, he picks 300 sections of the U.S. and selects five voters in each section. Then he sends his interviewers-who are mostly middle-aged women working part time-to poll those five voters. For the entire nation, and some large states, the random sample is 1,500 voters. Pollsters have found that they cannot significantly increase...
Last week, though, state legislators postponed any serious consideration of the plan for at least a year. And in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a pilot project designed to test decentralization ran into serious trouble. The case suggested that, if ill-defined and badly administered, the cure might be as bad as the ailment...
...announcement by rival General Motors. G. M. three weeks ago revealed that after two years of "top priority" work by its Fisher Body division, it was installing a guard rail on the doors of more than half of next year's models. The rail, actually an 8-in. section of high-strength sheet metal, will be welded out of sight inside the door. In the event of an impact on the side of the car, the rail will give way gradually but with resilience enough to deflect the oncoming automobile and cut down the danger to the occupants...
...following section he evaluates his own outlook and work...
COLES: Well, you're right. In the section I taught in Professor Erikson's course a couple of years ago this same theme came up again and again. The students accused me of being anti-ideological and a romantic, and I suppose they're right. My heroes are not the New Left heroes, and this is the problem, I guess. My heroes are Bernanos and Agee and Orwell and Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy--and Reinhold Niebuhr. And I would add within my own profession Erik Erikson and Anna Freud...