Word: address
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eighth decade of the 20th century is drawing near; yet many of the men who hold the levers of congressional power in Washington were born before the century began. In a recent address to the National Press Club, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner noted that since 1958, by act of Congress, the chief judges of federal district and circuit courts have been required to give up all administrative duties at age 70. Gardner suggested that Congress itself ought to follow suit...
...press conference last week, the President said that he would soon address the country on Viet Nam. The speech will probably come just before Christmas. Among other things, Nixon will announce another major troop withdrawal-probably about 40,000 men, bringing the total withdrawal this year...
...Jonathan R. Beckwith, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology and head of the team which last month succeeded in isolating a single gene, was the first to address the rally. "I'm here because I believe that Harvard is trying to force people out of their homes, using the worst taxies of a slumlord," he said...
...MAINE has never been exactly famous for being in the vanguard of secondary-school education. It was not long ago that the spotlight of ridicule and contempt fell on the eastern coastal town of Blue Hill when school officials prevented valedictorian Russell Salsbury from delivering his prepared valedictory address at graduation exercises. The reason given was that the young man's ideas "sounded pink" and seemed "dangerous." The incident received much publicity both inside and outside the state; I myself, as a Maine native, entered publicly into the fray. As it turned out, young Salsbury came to Harvard...
Yovicsin was in Washington last night to address alumni, and efforts to contact him by telephone were unsuccessful...