Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never have I been so disgusted by bureaucratic meddling in a state problem as I was with the bracero ban [June 4]. Congressmen sitting 3,000 miles away in Washington take it upon themselves to arbitrarily outlaw braceros. To state unemployment as an argument is absurd. How many of the 440,000 unemployed Californians would stoop to do farm work even at the union wage...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has always had pretty much his own way on Capitol Hill. This is partly because he has had strong presidential backing, partly because he overwhelms Congressmen with his ability to reel off facts and figures in almost unanswerable argument. Not the least of McNamara's accomplishments was to win the support of Georgia's Democratic Representative Carl Vinson, until his retirement last year the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the sometime gadfly to previous Defense Secretaries...
...marchers lined up in two lanes on Lake Shore Drive near Soldier Field to begin the 2½-mile trek to city hall. After they had gone a few hundred yards and turned into a narrower street, police ordered them to walk in only one lane. A heated argument ensued, and suddenly the marchers began sprawling across the roadway, blocking a busy intersection. Some went limp as cops carried them to waiting paddy wagons; others kicked, bit and screamed...
...course there is a lot in the argument people overlook lapses in House shows that would be unforgivable on the main stage. The design of the Loeb itself, the carpeted stairs, the comfortable seats, set up expectations few shows can meet. In the dining room, any skill is impressive. When, occasionally, a successful House production is transferred to the Loeb, it often seems tacky, or flat...
...actually the Faculty directors who were using the fluid situation to consolidate their own influence. As before, they could ask the Faculty committee to veto any student proposal they coudn't themselves block. But now they could also affect the HDC's plans from the outset, either by argument, or by suggesting that the Faculty committee would veto a proposal...