Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: All this nonsense by Ted Kennedy about Hamburger Hill [May 30] makes me furious. I cannot see how he can make such a statement after what has been happening in the A Shau Valley during the preceding weeks. In early May, the 1/501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division found one...
There was a brief ceremony at Bayeux, the cathedral town about five miles inland that served as U.S. headquarters during the first weeks after the invasion. Later, a torch was lighted at Utah Beach, where the 4th Division had land ed, and a military band played the na tional anthems...
Reuther has been president of the United Auto Workers since 1946. In 1952, he became president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and when the CIO merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955, Reuther was named president of the CIO division of the AFL-CIO.
The C&W music which forms the baseline for the record is best typefied by Bill Munroe, who coined the term "bluegrass." (Actually a sub-division of Country & Western, Appalachia as opposed to Texas.) It is instrumentally dependent on banjo and guitar, with an occasional mandolin or harmonica. The nasal...
Died. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, 67, an inspirational leader of the 2,000,000-member United Church of Christ arid vice president of Christian Life and Mission for the National Council of Churches; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that "a church immobilized by denominational division just doesn'...