Word: breaks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dirksen, the open-housing provision seemed just as "unconstitutional" a few weeks ago as it did in 1966, when he succeeded in killing a similar Administration proposal. He lobbied against the Mondale measure until Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called for a cloture vote to break the filibuster. The liberal Republican-Democratic coalition fell seven votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority...
...exchange of views" on whether to hold a giant summit meeting of Communist parties, Moscow's chief proposal at the meeting. When both promises were broken, Ceausescu angrily ordered his men to walk out of the Budapest meeting and fly home. He thus brought on the most serious break in the Soviet bloc since Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito defected from the Comintern just 20 years...
...real extent of Rumania's break with Russia will become evident this week, when the Rumanians have to decide whether or not to attend a meeting of Warsaw Pact countries in Sofia. Even if the Rumanians finally decide to go, Ceausescu's decision to pull out of last week's meeting left the Kremlin in a quandary. Though it now has no serious opposition to its plans for a top-level meeting, it also has less to gain than ever if it occurs. Once intent on isolating Maoism at a summit meeting, Soviet Marxists now stand...
...majority of Harvard students support draft resisters. In addition, a broad-based group would attract many students who shy away from anti-war and anti-draft organizations. These are the students who must be mobilized and counted in the ranks of the anti-war movement, if it is to break with its parochial tradition and blossom into a national coalition with political influence. Finally, the potential of the larger group is obviously greater than that of the more selective Union...
That's the only break Harvard got. B.U., dragged down to fifth by a rash of mid-winter upsets, is, by any subjective analysis, the second best team in the East...