Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial, the Times cited several major turning points at which the Administration failed to take advantage of opportunities to de-escalate and negotiate. It mentioned the period between Election Day in November, 1964; and February, 1965, when the offer of direct secret talks with Hanoi was rejected, and a second point during February, 1967, when it ignored hints from the Soviets that Hanoi would join in negotiations if the bombing pause was continued...
...wrote an extraordinary 3,200-word document that she hoped would find its way back to her children and friends in Russia. Last week it appeared in the Atlantic magazine, which, pleased with its journalistic coup, proclaimed in an ad: "The great tradition of Russian literature has a direct descendant in the daughter of Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva and Josef Stalin...
When he took over in 1965, NBC-TV's John Chancellor was the first working newsman ever to direct the Voice of America. His intention was to help shed its "institutional sound" - which too often was a bureaucratic defense of the incumbent Administration - and steer it closer to realistic journalism...
Eventually, Crawford would like to try straight drama again. "But I enjoy working," he says, "more than starving." (He has one child, a second on the way.) Within ten years he fancies himself out of acting and into directing and producing. Dick Lester already considers Crawford such a natural that he let him direct his own scenes in A Funny Thing. But reading the papers last week, Michael fretted about a possible delay in his plans. "If I go home," he mused, "I may be shipped off to Israel. If I stay here, I'd go to Viet...
...about the declining quality of public school education. Says Dr. Paul Miller, Cincinnati school superintendent: "People say that Johnny can't read anymore, or Mary can't spell, or kids aren't being taught arithmetic." Voting against bigger school budgets also represents one of the few direct ways that citizens can express their anger at a seemingly endless spiral of rising taxes. Basically, says Calvin Rossi, legislative representative of the California Teachers' Association, the voters "are not saying no to the schools. They are saying no to higher property taxes. Turning down school budgets and bond...