Word: exertion
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Whatever the time, place or local custom, nearly all weddings exert the same powerful tug: they draw all but the young back through the years to luxuriate, if only briefly, in their own memories. Last week millions of Americans took this trip to reverie, propelled by the nationalized nuptials of Luci Baines Johnson, the first daughter of an incumbent President to marry in 31 years, and Patrick John Nugent, the boy from Waukegan, Ill., who brashly wooed...
...Beginning with the Greek Philosopher Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.), who correctly surmised that climate was generated by solar radiation, there have been thousands of efforts at influencing weather. Now that man is approaching the stage at which some control is possible, the question is not just how he can exert his influence but how far he should go in pressing changes whose consequences still remain hidden...
Dead Putsches. The most amazing fact about the whole convention was that Jimmy Hoffa continued, despite everything, to exert his iron hold on the Teamsters. After all, Hoffa was convicted in 1964 for conspiracy and fraud in the handling of Teamster pension funds. That year he was also found guilty of attempting to suborn a jury in a 1962 trial in which he was accused of accepting a bribe from trucking operators. Hoffa was sentenced to 13 years in prison, remains free while the cases are under appeal.* He has been ostracized by the A.F.L.-C.I.O., been hit by Government...
...Justice Department insisted that it had filed suit to exert another kind of pressure. It asked that the defendant be "ordered and directed to take all action adjudged necessary to restore competition to the commercial medical laboratory industry in the United States...
...mounted a door-to-door campaign to keep Negroes away from the primary polls, even if it means the defeat of Negro candidates or sympathetic whites. Carmichael argues that the Negro has no hope of power within either major party as they are now constituted and so must exert his in fluence elsewhere. "To ask Negroes to get in the Democratic Party," he says, "is like asking Jews to join the Nazi Party." Carmichael's alternative is to organize independent parties at the county level, where Negroes have a registration majority or close to it, and then run third...