Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quick Response. The Administration executed a fast flip-flop in its position. It sent a phalanx of officials, including Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann and White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, to urge Selden to drop the resolution. If it passed, they said, Latin American nations might read it as an excuse for Americans to intervene at the least threat of Communist subversion, and some Latin strongmen might attempt to use it as a convenient justification for moving in on other countries. Selden stood fast, and the resolution breezed through the House...
Thus, stuck away in the country hollows, in old villages around which suburbs have grown, in city slums that look like grey blurs from expressways and fast commuter trains, the poor are scarcely visible. Society sees them mostly through the tabloid stories that reflect their roaring crime rate. For, as Henry Fielding put it 200 years ago, "the sufferings of the poor are less known than their misdeeds...
...toyed with Allen and Crimson sophomore Bob Stempson until the last 300 yards, and finished strong, closing fast on Hewlett. Stempson outstepped Allen for third place...
...pontificate that promises to be truly great." Others agree with Atlanta's Archbishop Paul Hallinan that the Pope's cautious approach to progress is precisely what is needed for the church today. "We need some kind of brake for safety's sake," he says. "If we move too fast, we may not have time to communicate properly with our clergy and our laymen...
Escaping Tariffs. In the number of cars produced-if not in profits, quality or technology-the European auto industry is closing in fast on Detroit; last year it turned out 7,545,000 cars v. the U.S.'s 7,745,000. Europe's automakers hope not only to sell more cars at home but to increase exports, on which they depend heavily for profits. Germany produces more cars than any of its neighbors (2,650,000 last year), sells more than half of them abroad. Second-ranked Britain last year exported 36% of its 1,870,000 cars...