Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Curtis E. LeMay and the Peace and Freedom Party's Eldridge Cleaver can probably boast (if boast is the word) even more precarious futures. The general has lost his $50,000-a-year job as board chairman of a California electronics firm. Cleaver, who won nearly 200,000 votes, is headed for a California courtroom to stand trial for assault with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon-the result of a shoot-out with Oakland police officers last April. In the meantime, he is lecturing at Berkeley...
...military assessment. While other advisers listened silently, the President leaned on his elbow and kneaded his face. Then he shot a vital question at Abrams: "Has it reached the point where we could reduce the bombing without causing casualties?" Abrams looked squarely at the President, his jaw firm. "Yes sir," he said. If there was any single moment when Johnson finally decided to gamble on a bombing halt, that probably was it. Shortly thereafter, he put in motion the orders to ground the planes...
...legal interpretation came from the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow. It was retained by HUC for what President Stephen H. Kaplan called "a substantial...
Tipping the Balance. Since 1963, chemical firms in the state have increased their sales by 50%, to last year's $900 million, and electronics industries by 26%, to $2 billion. Machinery manufacturing has achieved an annual growth rate of 6%, reaching $2.4 billion in sales in 1967. Many large U.S. companies have firm roots in the Stuttgart area. IBM-Germany is now Baden-Württemberg's third-largest enterprise, after Daimler-Benz and Bosch. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. owns Standard Elektrik Lorenz electronics company, the state's fifth-largest firm. Litton Industries, Ampex, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett...
...Ellmann's chief preoccupation is the way They impose sexual forms and opinions on the external world. Amidst multiple contradictions one principle stands firm: masculinity is good, femininity is bad. Beyond the usual visual analogies--curves and receptacles are womblike; steeples, shoes, and cylinders are phallic--lie physiological comparisons. They equate woman's mind with "her most definitive organ," according to Norman Mailer (one of Them), and just as the womb is conservative, nutritive, claustrophobic, feminine influence is antithetical to energy and thought. "Let's get out of here," a Harvard student said to a girl he visited...