Word: youngish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan man. The differences are major. A man in the outer boroughs may work in Manhattan, but he is no more a Manhattanite by temperament than is a citizen of Omaha. Manhattan is heavily populated by the East Side affluents, by poor blacks and Puerto Ricans, by youngish singles. Elsewhere in the vast, often dreary reaches of the boroughs, middle-class and working-class families predominate. A transit stoppage or a heavy snowstorm that is a minor bother or even a chance for bravado and gallantry in Manhattan can bring near paralysis in some of the outlying sections...
Historic Obligation. More aggressive members of Congress, many of them youngish liberals, want Capitol Hill to act more vigorously on urban ills, poverty, pollution of the environment, education and health services, and many other problems. For activist Democrats, particularly, a cautious Republican Administration seemed to offer an opportunity to make both an independent record and political points. When he ousted Louisiana's Russell Long as Senate Majority Whip in January, Ted Kennedy talked of the Democrats' "obligation to the country to present the best possible programs in keeping with our historic role as the party of progress...
Russia's ranking America watcher is probably Yuri Arbatov, head of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science's one-year-old Institute of American Studies. From his office in a renovated 18th century mansion in Moscow, Arbatov presides over a research staff of some 50 youngish, English-speaking specialists, a growing library, and space for a prestigious, soon-to-be-installed computer. The staff is made up of economists, historians, lawyers, foreign affairs specialists and social scientists, including a demographer. Anatoly Gromyko, son of the Soviet Foreign Minister and author of a book on the Kennedy Administration...
Acording to television reports, the assassin, a youngish man, about 5'5" and 130 lbs, with dark hair and a swarthy complexion was standing on some sort of a table. As Kennedy entered the passageway, fired a full chamber--eight shots--from a .22 caliber revolver...
Harry Truman signed on as honorary chairman, symbolizing, along with James Farley and George Meany, the old guard. Senators Walter Mondale of Minnesota and Fred Harris of Oklahoma represent youngish liberals. There were senior Congressmen from Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas and California. Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta and former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina stand for the moderate South. Other prominent names: Economist Robert Nathan, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action; Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago and North Western Railway Co.; Richard Maguire, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Kennedy Administration...