Word: formful
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...within its own sphere. The system is not ideal, and it is certainly not moral, but it has one unassailable virtue: so far, it has worked. Also, it can buy time for men like Alexander Dubcek, and others inside and outside the Communist domain, to continue striving, in some form, for freedom...
...with Secretary of State Dean Rusk. They were not sure the subject was Czechoslovakia, but they suspected as much. At the President's regular Tuesday luncheon a few hours earlier, a major topic had been Soviet military preparedness for an invasion. Rusk went ahead to a Democratic Plat form Committee hearing...
Feeling guilty about the Czechoslovaks, the British allowed Benes to form a wartime exile government in London. Meanwhile, though they had offered no resistance at the time of the German in vasion, the Czechoslovaks waged an underground war against the occupiers. In one of their retaliation moves, the Germans wiped out the entire village of Lidice. After Germany's defeat, Benes took his regime to Prague and started anew. He faced tremendous obstacles. At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Roosevelt and Churchill acceded to Stalin's demand that Czechoslovakia fall into his sphere of influence after...
Died. Douglas Horton, 77, Congregational minister, who headed the 1,298,205-member Congregational Christian Churches from 1938 to 1955 and the Harvard Divinity School from 1955 to 1959; of a heart attack; in Randolph, N.H. A prime mover in the ecumenical movement, Horton helped form the United Church of Christ in 1957 from the Congregational Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, served on the World Council of Church es from 1957 to 1963, and was a Protestant observer at the Vatican II Council from...
...into broadcasting, Cosell was a Phi Beta Kappa editor of the Law Review at New York Uni versity, then a successful specialist in corporate and labor law. On the side, he helped organize Little League baseball in the New York area. In 1953, ABC asked him to form a panel of Little Leaguers for a radio quiz show on sports. Two years later, he gave up his legal work to try a few test shots of his own on ten weekend sports reports. Today, with 31 scheduled broadcasts each week on radio and TV, he earns $175,000 a year...