Word: basely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement to initiate preliminary peace talks with North Viet Nam [May 10] is conceivably the most constructive achievement of American diplomacy in recent years. It has become increasingly evident that perpetuation of the status quo is untenable. For the incongruence of our increased involvement, upon an ever-diminishing base of rationale, has been unveiled before all eyes. Hopefully both negotiating teams will move swiftly towards an honorable and realistic peace...
Humphrey." Larry O'Brien acknowledges that "Humphrey's base is relatively wide?now?but it is not strong." That is, many of the delegates now counted as committed or favor able to Humphrey are under no compulsion to remain so. Also, there have been no binding stands taken in some of the biggest Northern delegations, such as those from Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, although Humphrey is thought to have considerable strength in several of them. Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, who could be the single most influential delegation chief at the convention he will host, maintains...
After playing third base as a sophomore on the J.V. squad, Ignacio broke into the varsity line-up at that position early in the season. He never played first before this year, but when coach Norm Shepard decided to make the shift, he managed to make the transition without harming his performance...
Astronauts call their lunar landing trainer "the Flying Bedstead"-it is a wingless tangle of tanks, tubes and rockets that stays aloft solely on the thrust of its engines. One day last week at Ellington Air Force Base, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, 37, was hovering the contraption a few feet off the ground when it suddenly shot up to 200 ft., pitched sharply down, and rolled to the right. "Better get out of there, Neil," barked Flight Control. Armstrong needed no prompting. He had already yanked the ejection ring and he parachuted to safety as the $2,100,000 craft dived...
Knight's home base is in Akron, where he inherited the Beacon Journal from his father in 1933. Every month he travels to one of his newspapers for a day's consultation. He reads all his papers every day, insists that every editorial be initialed so that he will know who writes it. His favorite activity comes each Thursday, when he closets himself in his office and works on his weekly column, for which he won the Pulitzer. Although he is a conservative, he has been a consistent opponent of the Viet Nam war; for the past year...