Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The U.S. Skeet-Shooting Finals, the National Rodeo Championships and a twelve-minute film clip of the 1910 Johnson-Jeffries Heavyweight Champion ship fight...
...money is less acute than the need for new ways to use it," I suggest the following: that the Federal Government establish a national council for ideas, made up of representatives from various Government departments, business and labor, plus farm, religious and educational leaders, to receive suggestions to fight poverty and strengthen human rights. As matters now stand, individuals with ideas must trudge from department to department, only to be told finally that there are no provisions in the budget for new ideas. If a commission were to act on proposals and give Ks approval, this might win acceptance...
Died. Grenville Clark, 84, Wall Street lawyer, Harvard benefactor (a member of the "Corporation" for 19 years), World Federalist and friend to two Presidents named Roosevelt, who did not let that stop him from organizing a national lawyers' committee to fight F.D.R.'s Supreme Court "packing" plan in 1937, later drafted the 1940 Selective Service Act, established the American Bar Association's civil rights committee, and wrote a voluminous treatise (World Peace Through World Law) calling for extensive revision of the United Nations charter, total disarmament and formation of a world development organization to promote peace...
Like most Irish-American families, the Kinsellas are marked by an incredibly strong sense of family loyalty. They'll argue and fight for ages with each other, but the world and even close friends never even sense disagreement since the arguing is all in the family. The two generations of Kinsellas who are in this novel are all native Americans, but significantly, they seem to be happiest when in Ireland. A large part of Family is set in Ireland, if only to emphasize the dominance of the Irish concept of family over Jimmy Kinsella and his three young sons, James...
...this atmosphere of terror and intransigence that Gowon had to fight for negotiations. His success was no small achievement. And the conference undoubtedly accomplished much. It relieved at least temporarily the accumulating tensions that seemed to be driving Nigeria toward civil war. It also brought an agreement to hold further talks, this time in Nigeria...