Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something, almost anything. Firearms sales are at an alltime high. In Newark, a white organization, the North Ward Citizens Committee, has been openly arming for "self-defense." Elsewhere, store owners are organizing self-protection groups. In Kansas City, 25 merchants in a racially mixed neighborhood are threatening to close their shops en masse...
...dissenters the recognizable types of 30 years ago-the trade unionists or the ideologues who peddled assorted versions of Marxism. They had specific programs and demands, many of which could be accommodated in relatively rational terms, and eventually were. With today's breed of kid revolutionaries, who would close...
...simply by staying put, are postponing a final decision. They are referred to by their host countries in such vague terms as "tourists on extended vacation" and "travelers living in self-imposed semi-exile." Said Film Director Ivan Passer, visiting New York: "In Hungary, they didn't close the border until three months after the tanks came in. A month after that, thousands of people disappeared"-into prisons...
...1930s, he used to pick up $5 a game, playing first base for the Watkins, Minn., Independents in the Great Soo League. There, Eugene McCarthy was known as a fancy-Dan fielder and batted close to .350. Since he joined the Senators, he has often starred for the Donkeys in the annual game between congressional Democrats and Republicans, and he still gets wound up for hours discussing baseball and his all-time favorite performers, among them Gil Hodges and Ted Williams. Friends report that McCarthy is not so much interested in the outcome of a contest as in the style...
This is no real surprise, since the two men have been close personal friends since they met two decades ago. Billy has often dined at the Nixon apartment and joined him for occasional rounds of golf. In 1964 Nixon told Billy's biographer that Graham might have made an able President, and he has praised him as "a great student of history with a rare perspective and insight." In a recent interview in Good Housekeeping, Nixon credited Graham's advice as a determining factor in his decision to seek the presidency...