Word: confer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missing the Chance. To many Birmingham Negroes, King's drive inflamed tensions at a time when the city seemed to be making some progress, however small, in race relations. Complained a Birmingham Negro attorney: "The new administration should have been given a chance to confer with the various groups interested in change." A. G. Gaston, a Negro businessman, added: "I regret the absence of continued communication between white and Negro leadership in our city." Said the Rev. Albert S. Foley, a white Jesuit priest who is chairman of Alabama's Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission...
...lest we forget, there are the South Vietnamese masses. On their behalf, it may not be too rash to assume that they desire and deserve something better than the right to trade one tyrant for another, a privilege the sponsors of the letter seem to confer upon them implicitly...
...greeted, President Kennedy last week visited San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica, to confer with six Central American Presidents. Estimates of the crowd lining the streets upon his arrival ranged up to 250,000-more than the total population of San Jose (200.000). and about one out of every five citizens of the entire nation...
...freighter in Vera Cruz and rode with seven boring fellow passengers to Houston in preparation for his movie adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools. In Rome, between sessions with De Sica, he popped around to Miss Porter's hotel room to confer with her on the script. In Mexico, he was also collecting impressions for his script of Children of Sanchez. Soon he will be in Georgia and Mississippi soaking up attitudes for his version of MacKinlay Kantor's Anders onville and William Faulkner's Light in August...
...Saudi Arabia to reassure the understandably nervous Prince Feisal. U.S. policy seems aimed at safeguarding the territorial integrity of Jordan and Saudi Arabia from aggression beyond their borders, not in maintaining the monarchs in power against their own people. In Israel, Premier David Ben-Gurion interrupted a vacation to confer with his defense chiefs...