Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are, as the saying goes, fighting words. They commit the United States to the ethics of conflict in a time of formal peace and thus foster on this side of the Cold War an atmosphere long present on the other--a tense, wartime atmosphere favorable to the operation of competitive emulation...
...booted out of the University of Illinois for boosting free love, unrepentant Biologist Leo Koch declared that "fidelity is a wonderful thing for people who like it," promptly found someone who did. Unsatisfied by the ex-professor's personal promise of propriety ("As for myself, I would never commit adultery without my wife's consent"), M.S.U. President (and Civil Rights Commission Chairman) John A. Hannah announced: "While Michigan State University cannot reasonably be held responsible for what every speaker on its campus may say, in this case it must specifically disassociate itself from his point of view...
...that Germany's capitulation was only a matter of weeks. Eichmann's response was to step up his shipments to the slaughterhouses. "We must hurry," he said. Then he decamped, leaving behind him his aristocratic mistress, Baroness Ingrid von Ihme. He assured other SS men he would commit suicide, that he would "leap into my grave happy because we will at least have wiped out Europe's Jews...
...question of time before the man they dreaded would be back in circulation-probably as Kenya's first Prime Minister. Many white moderates were openly urging Kenyatta's immediate release to break the political deadlock. Swallowing hard, Nairobi's white-run Nation declared: "He refuses to commit himself on any major problems facing the country. [But] there comes a point when a leap in the dark has to be taken...
...York Mirror interviewed a bevy of teenagers in Queens, among them an 18-year-old rock-'n-roll singer who felt that death for Eichmann "might be letting him off too easy." From "J.C.," a man who spent 15 years in jail for a murder he did not commit, Gossip Columnist Hy Gardner solicited the "worst punishment" for Eichmann: isolation for life, with nothing to read but the Bible. Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell coined another word: "Eichmonster." Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's TV Columnist Terence O'Flaherty: "I am waiting with a kind of cold horror...