Word: dems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minister Harold Wilson called the attack "a flagrant violation of all accepted standards of international behavior." In New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi expressed her "concern and anguish," but her statement was not strong enough to please members of Parliament, who filled the chamber with cries of "Dubcek! Dubcek!" Dem onstrations took place throughout the free world. In Bonn, German students mobbed the car of Soviet Ambassador Tsarapkin. In Tokyo, leftist students for the first time in history marched on the Soviet embassy in protest...
...Another, Bobby K. Hayes, 37, preaches an isolationist populist program that includes such unlikely reforms as a $2.50-an-hour minimum wage and elimination of capital gains taxes. Fulbright's strongest adversary is former State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 44, an avowed segregationist whose extremism as the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor in 1966 helped make Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas' first Republican Governor since Reconstruction. Now Johnson's wife Virginia is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Together they stump the state, espousing George Wallace's values and lambasting Fulbright as "Hanoi's pinup...
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL (May 3-Aug. 4) combines snob appeal with top-notch opera. New productions of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail spell Cavalli's L'Ormindo and Donizetti's Anna Bolena...
...response to recent riots and dem onstrations in Cairo, President Gamal Abdel Nasser promised to reform and improve his government. Last week he began the process. In the most thor ough Cabinet shakeout since he rose to power 16 years ago, Nasser sacked twelve of his 29 ministers, including two men who symbolized the pro-West and pro-Communist factions within his regime. He was apparently willing to part with such trusted associates in or der to give his Cabinet a fresh and more nonpolitical appearance...
...suggested that he play a few minutes of hockey for the cause (his supporters later distributed thousands of 70 auto windshield scrapers showing him on skates and saying "McCarthy Cuts the Ice"). Big names rallied to him. Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who as chairman of the Americans for Dem ocratic Action helped throw the group's endorsement to McCarthy, turned up. So did Poet Robert Lowell, who told listeners that the Republicans offered no alternative because "they cannot sink and they will not swim." Actors Robert Ryan and Tony Randall took to the stump, but Paul Newman...