Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observer says, "more at home with a conception than he is with the details of its application." King's home was bombed, and when his enraged people seemed ready to take to the streets in a riot of protest, he controlled them with his calm preaching of nonviolence. King became world-famous (TIME cover, Feb. 18, 1957), and in less than a year the Supreme Court upheld an earlier order forbidding Jim Crow seating in Alabama buses...
...like machine-gun fire in every major city in the North, as well as in hundreds of new places in the South. Negroes demanded better job opportunities, an end to the de facto school segregation that ghetto life had forced upon them. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, a calm, cool civil rights leader, lost some of his calmness and coolness. Said he: "My objectivity went out the window when I saw the picture of those cops sitting on that woman and holding her down by the throat." Wilkins promptly joined a street demonstration, got himself arrested...
Negotiations & Bullets. As tension mounted, schoolchildren of both communities began building street barricades. Makarios and Kuchuk drove in armored cars to police headquarters and agreed to issue joint appeals for calm. The appeal went out in Greek, but there was a delay in the Turkish transmission because no Turkish Cypriot announcer dared go near the radio station in a Greek-dominated district of Nicosia...
Turndown. A calm and casual executive, Hansberger invests half his time in flying visits to company offices, spends Saturday mornings with his staff in the main office "to do all the weighty philosophizing that you can get done when the phone isn't ringing." Along with other company executives, he dabbles in Idaho Republicanism, puts himself "somewhere between Goldwater and Rockefeller, but probably on the liberal side." He turned down an offer to run for the U.S. Senate last year "because the company wasn't quite mature enough to leave alone then." Idahoans suspect that his high ambitions...
Another obvious topic for the Moscow Party meeting is the split with Red China. Even as the Russian press was pleading for calm, Peking's delegates to the Communist World Peace Council in Warsaw noisily condemned Russia's "peaceful coexistence" policy, including the nuclear test ban. Russian delegates retorted, as New China News Agency put it indignantly, by "banging the desks and uttering catcalls...