Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other provisions of the bill were closer to what the President requested in 1967, when he called on Congress to strike a blow against crime in America. Among these: $400 million for assistance to state and local police in the next two fiscal years-almost 10% of the total amount now spent on all aspects of law enforcement...
...part, Hubert Humphrey retired to his home in Waverly, Minn., to "put in fence posts and mow the lawn," and also to reassess the new political horizon. That reappraisal, if some of Robert Kennedy's top aides have their way, will force Humphrey closer to the late Senator's position on Viet Nam, and may even persuade the Vice President that he should ballast his ticket with Ted Kennedy. In fact, the surviving brother is known to be high on Humphrey's list of running mates, along with Senators Fred Harris of Oklahoma and Edmund Muskie...
Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, who is more concerned these days with pacifists than pacifiers, seemed openly to seek arrest in hopes that he could eventually test his crusade against the Viet Nam war before the Supreme Court. Last week at Boston's Federal District Court, he moved closer to that goal. An all-male jury pronounced Spock, 65, guilty of conspiring to counsel and abet young men in evading the draft. Also found guilty: Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 44, Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber, 23, and Writer Mitchell Goodman, 44. The fifth member of "the Boston Five," Marcus...
...over and listen to Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer) talk about old times. Rosemary is more attracted to a girl of her own age who lives with the Castevets-it is a pity when she commits suicide by jumping out of the window. After that tragedy, the lonely Castevets grow closer than ever to Rosemary and Guy, whose acting career is suddenly beginning to go very well indeed. So well, in fact, that he agrees at last to let her have a baby. They carefully mark the date on the calendar when she will be most likely to conceive...
...economic infrastructure of North Viet Nam." In the fall of 1966, he was equally sanguine about the search-and-destroy strategy: "Within six, eight, ten or twelve months-before the end of 1967, at any rate, the chances are good that the war will look successful. We are much closer to the end of what Prime Minister Ky calls the 'military war' than most people here, including most people in government, even dare to hope." While granting that Alsop may be the "hardest-working reporter in Washington," Engberg asks: "What good is it all to someone who resolutely...