Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similarly convinced that Nixon would win in the fall, insisted that Johnson permit the next President to pick his own Chief Justice. But Johnson has tradition firmly on his side-John Adams appointed John Marshall Chief Justice a month before leaving office-and he will almost certainly ignore their demand. Immediate speculation as to his choice centered on two Associate Justices: Abe Fortas, Johnson's close friend and his first appointee to the court, and William Brennan Jr., who shares Warren's philosophy on most issues...
Since white Rhodesians have fervent allies in many right-wing Tories, and their sympathizers are dotted across the political spectrum, Conservative Leader Edward Heath thought the issue ripe for a showdown. His logic: if the Lords voted the government down overwhelmingly, Labor might well demand abolition of the upper house, which he believed it would not dare do without calling a general election. Since the government has lost all but one of the last nine by elections for the House of Commons-an Evening Standard poll last week showed the Tories running 16% ahead of Labor-a general election...
...explain present-day revolutionary action are not persuasive to James Q. Wilson, professor of government at Harvard. Revolutions are commonly thought to be triggered by "material deprivation or unresponsive governments," he writes in the New York Times Magazine. Actually, the more people get, says Wilson, the more they demand. "Competition for leadership among dissident groups will inevitably generate ever more extreme demands faster than less extreme requests are filled." If anything is to blame for revolution, thinks Wilson, it may be prosperity, which has freed an ever increasing number of people, educated and not so educated, to participate...
...sign the treaty, and such nations as India, Israel and West Germany may do so reluctantly, if at all, Johnson nonetheless hailed it as "the most important international agreement in the field of disarmament since the nuclear age began." He also emphasized that non-nuclear nations are "entitled" to demand that the superpowers make progress "on the limitation of strategic defensive and offensive" nuclear weapons...
Watts Wreckage. What speaks most eloquently, both black and white museum sponsors have found, is not art produced by the cultural ancestors of white America. Most ghetto exhibitions are carefully tailored to their audiences, designed to help meet the widely voiced demand from Negroes for more information about their neglected Afro-American heritage. Currently, several dozen projects are under way in about 20 cities, financed by $400,000 worth of seed money from the National Endowment for the Arts, by states' arts councils, private benefactors and locally raised nickels and dimes...