Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Thomas Johns (Pikeville College) preaches that confrontation and polarization of ideas make "people aware of their own thinking" [Nov. 29]. Regrettably, education in our society is so close to this state of affairs that we are rapidly losing our awareness of how others think. In short, confrontation methods are developing educational activists who close their minds to opposing issues in society and thus "optout" on the unique and basic purposes of higher education. Protests in the form of recent school-bond rejections by our generous but nettled taxpayers, suggest a greater sensitivity to the purposes of higher education than...
More than most Presidents-elect, Nixon relied heavily on the supporting cast he has learned to trust from close experience. Maurice Stans (Commerce) is a colleague from the Eisenhower days and a longtime Republican fund raiser. John Mitchell (Attorney General) was Nixon's law partner and campaign manager. Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird (Defense) has served Nixon occasionally as an adviser. California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch (Health, Education and Welfare) is an old friend, campaign aide and confidant. In fact, Finch is matched in the boss's esteem only by William Pierce Rogers, Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration...
...Capitol Hill Melvin Laird has long borne the aura of power, carefully contained but ready for instant application. His close-cropped skull and impassive features give him the forbidding countenance of a Japanese war lord. His steely mind and stinging tongue deepen the impression of a political samurai. Though he is in fact one of the nation's wiliest politicians, in private life he is a puckish, convivial figure...
...interrupted radio and television broadcasts to announce that the President had signed the Fifth Institutional Act, giving him full dictatorial powers in "defense of the necessary interests of the nation." The act, the fifth of its kind in the last four years, gave Costa e Silva the right to close Congress, rule by decree, cancel the political rights of any person, declare a state of siege, dismiss public officials, waive writs of habeas corpus, and permit the seizure of assets of those who illegally enriched themselves...
Lewers vanquished Steve Thomas in the 50-yard free, while Bob Hughes won the 100-yarder in 53.2 Cummins and his opponent, highly-touted Mare Christman, were swimming a close race in the 200-yard breaststroke, but in the last 100 yards Cummins moved away from Christman to win handily...