Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculties, boards of trustees and school administrators to have the backbone to stand up against this kind of situation." In May 1 Law Day speeches, other Administration officials echoed Nixon, calling student rebels "ideological criminals" and "new barbarians." Said Attorney General John Mitchell: "The time has come for an end to patience. I call for an end to minority tyranny on the nation's campuses and for the immediate re-establishment of civil peace and the protection of individual rights...
...embarrassing him, he could be forced into a direct showdown. A President does not easily lose arguments with his own party. On the other hand, an angered Dirksen can still cause untold amounts of trouble. Therefore, Nixon will most likely try to cool things down. At week's end he invited Dirksen to accompany him to the Kentucky Derby. As for Dirksen, he remained as archly disingenuous as ever. "The President knows all the time what I'm up to," he told MacNeil. "He knows that if there is anyone on this hilltop he can count...
...spate of recent Supreme Court rulings that have broadened the rights of welfare recipients. In 1966 the high court upheld a decision prohibiting Georgia from denying relief benefits to mothers whom the state deemed able to work. Other cases included a landmark decision against Alabama, which had sought to end payments to mothers either widowed or estranged from their husbands if the women were "cohabiting" with other men. To Alabama authorities, the men were "substitute fathers." Only last month, the court invalidated the residency prerequisite for benefits that had been demanded by 40 states and the District of Columbia...
...tone and tough radicalism dominated the rhetoric last week when 350 delegates to the First National Black Economic Conference met in Detroit. First they ejected white news men. Then they rejected capitalism for a socialist state for Negroes. Within this brave new world, young Negroes would spurn such "dead end" and "status quo" jobs as driving trucks, delivering mail or repairing television sets...
...France. Most Frenchmen woke up in the first days of what might be called A.D. (After De Gaulle) slightly dazed and a little disbelieving at what they had wrought. Some had doubted De Gaulle's resolve when he told them?arbitrarily, as always?that a non vote would really end his rule. Others, long accustomed to the Gaullist unexpected, wondered whether it was really for keeps, or whether De Gaulle might not still somehow come thundering back into the arena. Above all, the French, the inveterately rationalist sons and daughters of Descartes, set out to reckon a France without...