Word: central
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plain impossibility of dismantling overnight the barnacled apparatus of a hard-lining Communist state. Last week Dubček finally acted against the conservative Communists remaining in both the government and the party who fear and resent the promised economic and political changes. At a meeting of the Czechoslovak Central Committee Dubček ousted his predecessor, Antonin Novotný, from the committee-his last position of influence-and suspended the party membership not only of Novotný, but also of six former collaborators until their share in the political trials of the past is clarified...
Russian Troops. The removal of Novotný from the Central Committee reflect's Dubček's growing strength, and he plans to consolidate it at a special party congress in September. Dubček, however, had to make certain concessions last month to visiting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. He promised, for one thing, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Warsaw Pact by permitting "staff exercises" in Czechoslovakia of troops from the Soviet bloc. The soldiers, most of them from the signal corps, were prompt to arrive. At week's end, the first of about...
...unruly Berrigans on counts-including sabotage, robbery and assault-that could send them to prison for 54 years. Pending trial, Daniel Berngan was allowed to go free on bail. But not Philip. At the time of the Catonsville caper, he was already awaiting sentence for raiding Baltimore's central draft board and pouring blood on its files. As a "possible danger to the community," U.S. District Judge Edward Northrop ordered him held without bail m the Baltimore County Jail He also sentenced him to six years in a federal prison for the earlier raid. The Berrigans took the judgment...
...looks like two June Allysons," the one with "the perfect face for radio." She is also the one who gushes too much, as in her introduction of Guest Muriel Humphrey: "You're so beautiful it's ridiculous! It looks like you were hired by central casting!" She can be alternately flip and flibbertigibbet but generally plays angel's advocate...
...When they realized how silly they looked, they progressed to Terry Riley's Time-Lag Accumulator. There each viewer individually recorded laughs, hoots and remarks on a tape in one of twelve anterooms. The tape was then played back simultaneously with tapes made by his companions in a central room, creating "a collage of noise...