Word: accept
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Administration and Senate leadership to accept his suggestions. ∙THE OPPONENTS' STRATEGY. The Democratic opponents of the civil rights bill realize that it will eventually be passed, and they are concentrating their energies on gutting a few key sections. With G.O.P. leaders like Dirksen talking about softening the public accommodations provision, Richard Russell has shifted his fire elsewhere. "The public accommodations section, severe as it is, is not the worst provision of this bill," he says. "There are at least two that I think are much more damaging to our system and would cause a much more violent reaction...
...annual dinner of the Writers' Guild of America is one of those har-de-har-har festivals like Washington's Gridiron Club and Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners meetings. This year the tone was set early when John Huston arose to accept an award for advancing "the literature of the motion picture through the years." He waved a bottle of champagne at the cheering masses, declaring that he was drinking to them all "from an overflowing cup, with an overflowing heart." Champagne foamed out of his glass and down over his dinner jacket like a cataract...
...manufacturers are almost certainly right in their calculation that the market will continue to grow. Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, one of the original investigators, first in Puerto Rico and now in Mexico, says: "It's extremely rare to find a woman willing to accept another method once she knows that 'the pills' exist. Even the poorest, with little or no schooling, are found to be faithful and conscientious users...
...location of this remark in your correspondent's article gives the misleading impression that I said Negro peoples should accept a cultural inferiority complex. This I did not say. What I said was that in terms of the concept of "Negritude," it is held that peoples of African descent cannot overcome a certain cultural inferiority complex by denying that their indigenous cultures were at a technologically low level of evolution...
Operating all ever the United States, the S.C.T.C. can accept up to 500 applicants. While generally doubtful that the final group will be that big. Nicolaus voiced confidence that this summer's trip would be considerably larger than the 59 who visited Cuba last July. Probably recruitment this year will benefit from the publicity received by the previous group...