Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YEAR OF THE YOUNG REBELS, by Stephen Spender. Mingling on the barricades with American and European student radicals, the Old Left poet and veteran of Spanish Civil War politics reports humanely on New Left ideals and spirit...
...turn of the century, the U.S. conceived of its interest as the prevention of any one power's domination of Asia. Nor is it new even in terms of the 1960s; it is a reversion to the pre-1965 approach of attempting to avoid involvement in civil strife. The Johnson Administration justified large-scale intervention in Viet Nam on the basis of North Viet Nam's actions. No one in the White House then dared speak of the conflict as a civil war. Presumably, Nixon would henceforth be considerably more reluctant to reach a decision that would require...
Died. The Rev. A. D. Williams King, 38, younger brother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and himself an active civil rights leader; of accidental drowning in his swimming pool; in Atlanta. For years, "A.D.," as he was called, worked in his brother's shadow as an organizer and detail man. In 1963, after the Ku Klux Klan bombed his home, he led movements for racial integration in Birmingham and open housing in Louisville. In 1968, he assumed his slain brother's co-pastorate at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta...
...Routes. The competition is heightened by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which generously grants new routes to satisfy every line so far as possible. After ten years of investigations, reviews, reversals and reappraisals, the CAB last week brought the hotly contentious Hawaii-route case to a characteristically unsatisfactory close. Where only Pan American, Northwest and United Airlines have competed in the past, eight carriers will now vie for a share of the market. As a result, profits on the Hawaii run are likely to be marginal at best. In anticipation of the award, Western Airlines alone added 35 planes...
Ever since his appearance as the hysterical junkie in Detective Story (1951), Wiseman has portrayed a memorable gallery of characters: the reporter in Viva Zapata, the crazed Civil War veteran in The Unforgiven, the sardonic, long-suffering father in Bye Bye Braverman and The Night They Raided Minsky's. If he only made more movies, he might prove himself to be one of the best character actors around...