Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the table from Hanoi's representatives, Harriman will be dealing with minds far more involuted and methods far less direct than the Russians'. Since 1961, Harriman has been deeply involved in the conflict between Saigon's independence and Hanoi's drive for hegemony. He has been in almost constant motion in both the policymaking and negotiating phases, remaining unruffled even during the past month's dickerings. "I never pack my bags until we move," Harriman says of his many missions. Last week he once again began packing. "It is 20 years almost...
Only seven days after this week's Indiana primary, Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy will meet on the fertile Republican turf of Nebraska for their second direct confrontation of the campaign...
...mourn ful carnage of retribution and revenge, and initially is reluctant to take any brutal measures against the colony. But then a clerical emissary from England arrives to announce that King Charles I intends to revoke the charter of the Massachusetts Colony and place it under the direct rule of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Morton taunts Endecott with this promise of lost authority, and suddenly the Governor becomes as steely as his armor. Delivering a flaming polemic against the King, he sunders his own flagstaff and tromps the red-crossed flag of England underfoot. It is the most powerful moment...
...days when tourists traveled on bumpy roads across the sere, dusty landscape. The jet age has gone far to remove the boredom that made one Texas lady remark: "It's what's between the high spots that depresses me so." Today, there are eleven daily direct jet flights into Mexico City from...
Members of the Southern Christian Leandership Conference have asked the marchers to urge their hosts to join them in Washington, D.C., in June and engage in "non-violent direct action...