Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AGRICULTURE: Bluntly, the Johnson Administration has no idea what to propose for farm legislation this session. In his State of the Union address, Lyndon settled for brief platitudes, calling for "new approaches"-a phrase that drew laughter from him and his advisers as they drafted it. There is some talk in the Administration of lower support prices for larger, prosperous farmers, and higher ones for smaller growers. No matter what Johnson dreams up to mold the U.S. agricultural mess to fit the shape of a Great Society, 1965 farm legislation will be a sticky problem. Says Carl Albert: "This will...
...himself prepared a speech for broadcast to the nation, threatening to resign rather than form a new government on the basis of the election. Then, at the last minute he cancelled the address, and joined a cabinet meeting in search of some form of compromise. But at week's end, Nigeria's unity still hung by a thread...
...Brazzaville's President, Alphonse Massamba-Debat, would be glad enough to help: in his year-end radio message, he praised Red China, Ghana, Algeria and Egypt and muttered darkly about "little Hitlers" in Leopoldville. As if for emphasis, Massamba-Debat delivered the last page of his address twice...
...Buddhist monk could use self-cremation as the strongest form of protest," said Coffield in a farewell address to members of his former parishes. "I go into self-imposed exile as the strongest protest I can make. Emotionally, this is a tearing experience: on the one hand, not to feel in union with my cardinal whom I admire and love in so many ways; on the other hand, not to be permitted what I know Christ wants me so urgently to do-to be at the heart of the pain and suffering of the modern...
...scope that distinguished such Ford classics as Stagecoach. Perhaps he feels alien to Indians who don't come over the hill in war paint. The make-believe Cheyennes appear somewhat out of it themselves. When they are not struggling with the white man's words, they address one another in Navajo...