Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, roughly 25,000 was the target figure. The President could have rounded up every cook and clerk and made a more dramatic gesture, recalling as many as 100,000. He rejected that idea: to act responsibly in his view meant pulling out a maximum of 70,000 troops this year, and to remove them all at once would have looked too much like what White House insiders call "an elegant bugout." In any event, there would be opportunity later to take out more support personnel. To underline his seriousness, Nixon felt that most...
...bill, Chamber President Alessandro Pertini has announced that "we will divorce ourselves from our summer vacation" unless progress is prompt. Since no one wants to remain in Rome in August, the Deputies are expected to approve the bill late next month. The Senate will then be able to act on it after the August break...
...York Philharmonic would have liked Leonard Bernstein to stay on forever as its music director. But since he announced 21 years ago that he would quit to devote more time to composing, the orchestra has been pondering a successor, well aware that Lennie would be a tough act to follow. Who could match the famous Bernstein skill, glamour, showmanship and popularity? Last week the orchestra directors courageously and imaginatively picked a man who might just do it. In Pierre Boulez, 44, the French avant-garde composer-conductor, the Philharmonic is betting its future on a musical pied piper...
...oppose a candidate, give opponents a chance to be heard. WGCB appealed, contending that the FCC had overstepped its authority. The Radio Television News Directors Association, joined by the National and Columbia Broadcasting companies, also went to court to argue that the regulations violated not only the Federal Communications Act but also First Amendment guarantees of free speech. Broadcasters, they said, would grow chary of controversy if they had to worry about a toughened fairness doctrine. In a unanimous opinion, the high court upheld the FCC in both cases. A license does not mean ownership of the air, said...
...Bolshevik scare, failed to distinguish between mere advocacy of lawlessness and "advocacy directed to inciting" imminent crime and likely to produce it. "A statute which fails to draw this distinction intrudes upon the freedoms guaranteed by the First and 14th Amendments," said the court, as it voided the Ohio act. New York's criminal-anarchy law and California's criminal-syndicalism statute are also under challenge. They, too, will be tested on how well they have drawn the crucial line between advocacy and incitement...