Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because Wilson might call a snap election before they can build up a new leader. Polls show that Labor would probably win a hefty majority, but Wilson leaves the impression that he has his own pragmatic reasons for not going to the country. His theory: the British people are fed up with politics and want government to get on with its job. He is also pragmatically sure that the best way to ensure that his opposition remains weak and divided is to keep them in suspense about what he will do next. It is interesting that, for all Wilson...
Although many negotiation-minded nations were still urging Washington to begin talks with Hanoi leading to neutralization (perhaps starting at a conference over Cambodia), this was clearly not the time. In fact, Lyndon Johnson appeared to be getting fed up with all the unsolicited advice pouring in from nervous Nellies. Shortly after Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri demanded an end to American bombings of North Viet Nam as a precondition to peace talks, the White House asked them to postpone the trips to the United States that each had planned this...
...counting her jewelry and chateaux. A movie about her life brought in more revenue. But the money gradually was lost at the casinos, and La Belle Otero grew old and wizened, reduced to living in a cramped room in the second-class Hotel Novelty. Mornings she marketed and fed the pigeons; on pleasant afternoons she strolled along the Promenade des Anglais. She said, "Women have one mission in life: to be beautiful. When one gets old, one must learn how to break mirrors. I am very gently expecting...
More than a third of Canada's university students attend Ontario colleges, which are largely fed by the province's 13-grade public-school system. The University of Toronto is spinning off satellite colleges, including Scarborough, which will open in Toronto next fall with 500 students, and Erindale, which will start in 1966. An earlier Toronto satellite, York University, is moving onto a brand-new campus on the west side of Toronto, leaving its old building to just-founded Glendon College, which is modeled on Swarthmore. Some 16 buildings are under construction or planned at Ontario...
...snow on the first day of the march fed this quiet emotion. The students trudged through the slush all day Friday and through much of the night feeling brave and somewhat martyred. The march ended Saturday in a solemn procession to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two miles away, where the demonstrators stood silently among the rows of clean white tombstones each representing a death...