Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam war. This giant teach-in, held on over 70 campuses throughout the country, will include a program at Sanders Theatre, broadcast by telephone and radio to colleges in the South and East. The student leaders hope that the speakers--Professors Galbraith, Fairbank, Cohen, and Hoffmann--will focus on the kinds of questions that will be dealt with in programs this spring and summer...
...candor seems to be replacing cant, and the picture should soon come more clearly into focus for Hanoi. "The enemy is only going to respond to pressure," Westmoreland told an interviewer before leaving for Saigon. "Once he realizes that we're no pushover, that his country is being drained when its finest manpower moves south, never to return, that his industry is being destroyed, that at the same time South Viet Nam is on the upswing, he will reassess his strategy. Once he realizes that we're ready, willing and able to continue this pressure, the facts...
Both Fosdick* and McCracken are Baptists-but there the similarity ends. A fiery orator and prolific writer who thrived on controversy, Fosdick became the focus of the modernist-fundamentalist battles of the 1920s by questioning the Virgin Birth and the literal truth of Scripture, later gained a national following as a radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator...
During Eastman Kodak Co.'s annual meeting last week in Flemington, N.J., 600 demonstrators paraded quietly outside the local high school. "Kodak is out of focus," read one placard. "The poor will win," proclaimed another. Attending the meeting briefly, the demonstration's leader, Negro Clergyman Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence, 33, stalked angrily out, thundering: "This is not a meeting of stockholders. This is a meeting of racists." All the rancor obscured the fact that the company did record business during 1967's first quarter...
...total injustice of the U.S. war against that country. As an example of this strategy of exposing imperialism and linking up with those whom imperialism hurts, I cited the May 7 conference on organizing and the demonstration May 8 at the Washington draft hearings. This demonstration will focus on the notion that no draft is justifiable for Vietnam or similar wars, that the U.S. must withdraw unilaterally and entirely. Jared M. Israel...