Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threatening a 24-hour strike this month because some train drivers have lost pay as unprofitable service has been curtailed. But handling such problems will be difficult. The powerful Trades Union Congress has gone so far as to snub the Prime Minister by not even asking him to address its annual meeting this week...
Presented at the meeting was the Vatican-approved report of the joint working group, which revealed that Rome will send a new category of 15 "delegated observers" to next summer's massive World Council assembly in Uppsala, Sweden. For the first time, Roman Catholics will be entitled to address the assembly and, according to the World Council's general secretary, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, who would not elaborate, the new category "could also affect the makeup of the new central committee...
...pass anti-Semitic literature along to his troops. Another measure of the opposition was offered by former Israeli Ambassador to Warsaw, Dov Sattath, who reported receiving 3,200 letters of support from Polish gentiles during the Middle East crisis. Most were signed and bore the sender's address-an act of considerable courage in a country where the censor is as ubiquitous as the corner mailbox...
...have made an article of conscience St. Benedict's warning that "those who talk much cannot avoid sin." Trappists have normally been allowed to speak only when intoning the Gregorian chant at High Mass, reciting prayers at five other daily services, and when it is necessary to address superiors...
When Lester Maddox became Governor of Georgia. Carl Sanders provided him with a speech writing team that produced a shockingly moderate inaugural address. Ever since, Lester has baffled politicians to the left and the right. What happened to the pistol-waving racist who in 1965 led whites with ax handles against Negroes who approached his Pickrick Restaurant? What prompted him to brag that his administration had increased welfare payment? Why did he appoint 15 Negroes to local draft boards? It was a disconcerting reversal...