Debate on quotas at Democratic convention 1972
Tom Wicker analyzes McGovern's open process and the debate over race, gender, and age quotas at the Miami Beach convention. He argues the 1972 guidelines aimed to remedy past exclusion, not entrench preferences, and calls for open democratic selection with fair representation for women, blacks, Chicanos, and the young.
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George McGovern
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Miami Beach
Chicago
Democratic Reform Commission
Daley
Gangs Through The Ages Tech and Terrors In Urban Life
The piece traces evolving street gang violence from 1960s cinema to real urban turmoil in cities like New York Chicago and Los Angeles. It notes shifts in gang makeup from white to black, weaponry from zip guns to submachine guns, and the rise of youth violence tied to urban ills, while drawing parallels to fiction like A Clockwork Orange and social reform needs.
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Jets
Sharks
Sidney Skolsky
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Chicago
New York
Los Angeles
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Fagin
Russia
Europe
Osborn Segerberg
Bernstein on Words Risky Moral Twins Hanged Words
A brief feature discusses shifting senses of moralize and moralistic and warns that usage now conveys self righteousness. It explains lay versus lie with examples and notes the obsolete sense of bottle as a bundle from Middle Dutch bote.
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