Word: cancellous
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...copy of Cancer Ward went to Madame Helene Peltier-Zamoyska, the wispy Frenchwoman who spirited all the works of her old friends Sinyavsky and Daniel to the Polish exiles running Kultura magazine in Paris. As for Solzhenitsyn, rumored to be ailing from cancer himself, he has demanded that everyone cancel foreign publication of his book-not so much to prevent Westerners from reading it, probably, as to deprive the Soviet censors of one more excuse for banning it at home...
...need for some drastic action to end the impasse was due partly to Kirk's own vacillation in handling the student protests, he had plenty of provocation to call in the police. For one thing, the strike had expanded well beyond its initial aims getting the university to cancel plans for a gymnasium in nearby Morningside Park and drop its affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Govern ment-supported research center...
...that the Democratic Party may pay little heed to its historical successes, fully aware at last that new techniques of political activity and new programs are required. This is not to say that Hubert Humphrey has no chance of getting nominated this August. Kennedy and McCarthy very well might cancel each other out. But even if Humphrey is nominated and elected, he is certain to be the first Democratic President in this century to face strong, incessant, radical uressure from the grass roots and from his former Congressional allies
...appearances in Los Angeles tied up traffic on the Hollywood Freeway for hours. He drew an overflow crowd of 12,000 at Brigham Young University in conservative Utah, even though campus authorities declined to cancel classes for the occasion. In Lincoln, Neb., he attracted the biggest political audience (12,000) since Dwight Eisenhower stopped there 16 years...
Shredded Mantle. King has heard himself dubbed a rabble-rouser before; now, for leaving the march, he was called a coward as well. Ignoring the intransigent role that Mayor Loeb had played in stoking the Negroes' discontent, King's critics called upon him to cancel his "poor people's march" on Washington next month; some demanded federal curbs against it as well. Undismayed, though his nonviolent mantle was in shreds, King vowed to press ahead with the Washington demonstration and lead another march on Memphis this week...