Word: attends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the flurry of diplomatic activity, the President found time to attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in Manhattan, where he shared the dais with Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke. Johnson was in good humor. Mimicking Nixon's farewell speech after he lost the election for Governor of California, he declared that "this is the last time you will be able to kick Lyndon Johnson around." For all his seeming relaxation, however, the President's attention was focused on any signs from Hanoi that might signal a desire for peace...
...sunny Ionian Sea. From Holland an elaborate airlift brought in mountains of tulips, and lemon buds to be woven into garlands for the bridal pair. From the mainland came Father Polykarpos Athanassion, pastor of the Kapnikarea Church in central Athens. Angelo of Athens descended on the isle to attend to the world's most closely scrutinized coiffure. Bouzouki bandsmen were on hand to play the haunting melodies so dear to the bridegroom's heart. Argosies of viands and wines were lightered in and unloaded while the white-hulled honeymoon yacht creaked at her quay...
...dismantling missile sites in Turkey and Italy. Without elaboration, Bobby reports that "we all spoke as equals. We did not even have a chairman. Dean Rusk-who, as Secretary of State, might have assumed that position-had other duties during this period of time and frequently could not attend our meetings...
...potential damage to white Americans resulting from the diminution of privilege as more critical than continued damage to the underprivileged." They have now ordered segregation plucked out "root and branch." But 14 years after the Brown decision, said Steel, only about 15% of the black children in the South attend integrated schools...
Everybody from a beginning assistant professor on up can attend Faculty meetings now; and with the new definition of assistant professor, about 80 to 150 more Faculty members would be able to vote...