Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the strikers were gearing for a bitter struggle. They vowed to make night marches through white neighborhoods all summer. The International Longshoremen's Association privately told McNair that it would close down the busy port of Charleston if the strike is not settled promptly...
...defeated presidential candidate does in the U.S." Nonetheless, he felt it his duty to campaign as hard as he could, and campaign he did. During a hastily organized blitz of twelve cities and towns, he pushed the cause of a revived center-left government and an end to Gaullism. Poher hit hard at the large state-security apparatus built up by De Gaulle, but still refused to deal directly with many other issues. In riposte, Pompidou's supporters noted dryly that as a Senator, Poher had not opposed creation of the state-security tribunal that he was now criticizing...
...Charles de Gaulle, still keeping his holiday exile in Ireland, far from the men jostling for his place, such minor adjustments to his grand designs must not have seemed too unexpected or unpalatable. But in one throwaway line at the end of the campaign, Georges Pompidou surely caused the old general to bristle with anger and dismay. It was an observation that exposed as perhaps nothing else could the gap between De Gaulle's view of France and the world and that of Pompidou-and between the France of De Gaulle and that of post-De Gaulle. In examining...
Only eight major nations in the world, all Catholic, do not allow divorce. They are Italy, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay. Of the eight, the one closest to ending its prohibition is the home of the church it self. Italy's Chamber of Deputies last week began full debate on a bill that would allow civil divorce for one of seven reasons. Parliamentary observers predict that the bill will pass, probably before the end of the year...
...end of the spectrum of grandeur and dissent was the commencement at New York City's Herbert H. Lehman College, a newly constituted, tuition-free urban college in The Bronx, which celebrated its first graduation with a minimum of pomp. Lehman was awarding 1,281 baccalaureates, many of them to children of families only one or two generations in the U.S. Quietly, pridefully, parents and relatives took their places on folding chairs on the broad lawn, while a Berlioz march thundered from loudspeakers. Some women wore mink stoles; others were in frantically color-splashed pants suits. Folded Yiddish newspapers...