Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would not run again, Robert McNamara, new president of the World Bank, fell into conversation with aides of Robert Kennedy. How might the former Defense Secretary help the campaign? Since he was barred from politics by the bank's charter, McNamara could not endorse Kennedy. But who could complain if he recounted Bobby's "energy and courage, compassion and wisdom" during the crises of his brother's Administration...
Tear Gas & Rumors. A few cities disregarded the lessons learned at such cost in previous summers. When 1,000 high-spirited Negro youths cut classes in Kansas City, Mo., and marched on city hall to complain that their brothers across the river in K.C., Kans., had been given a day off from school in tribute to King, Mayor Ilus W. Davis acted sensibly to calm them by linking arms with a band of black ministers and accepting the offer of a Roman Catholic priest to give the students an afternoon of rock music at a nearby church. Davis, aided...
...hear some papers complain, the American Bar Association's new guidelines on press coverage of criminal cases will repeal the First Amendment and return the Inquisition. Some lawyers have cited the rules in attempts to get trials closed to reporters. Exasperated, the author of the guidelines, Massachusetts Judge Paul Reardon, has advised everyone to calm down...
From their point of view, the reporters had reason to complain. The McCarthy organization could muster thousands of volunteers from throughout the nation to canvass Wisconsin voters for the Senator, but it often broke down when confronted with the more sophisticated parts of running a campaign, particularly the delicate job of managing the media...
...Salber and her husband, also a doctor, were working in the Bantu township. Though facilities were good and the work "terribly exciting," apartheid raised moral problems. Just outside the township was a settlement of 6000 Bantu men on contract labor, brought in from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably led to a criticism of South African politics. Dr. Salber recalled, "There just wasn't very...