Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iowa Republican Jack Miller, proponent of a tough stance in Viet Nam, chimed in with a plea that "something should be done about a change in the conduct of the war." Idaho Democrat Frank Church, a longtime critic, warned that the Administration seemed to be "poised to plunge still deeper into Asia where huge populations wait to engulf us, and legions of young Americans are being beckoned to their graves." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was no less concerned. "We are facing today the most troublous days in the entire history of the Republic, and I bar no period...
...critics. Texas Republican John Tower congratulated Johnson for "doing what a number of us have been saying for 2½ years - that you cannot win a war by gradual response, that the only way to achieve military victory is through massive air and sea superiority." Crusty Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche did not defend the President so much as attack Fulbright. "The only way we can reach a decision is for the Senator of Arkansas to present a resolution to the Senate," he proposed. "Until he does that, I suggest that he quit talking...
...discovery for seven months, the Cambridge team published its findings and tentative conclusions in Nature, setting off a flurry of activity among U.S. scientists. Focusing Cornell University's giant radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on the one pulsar whose position was given by the British, Astronomer Frank Drake confirmed the rapid, regular signal and discovered that it was ten times as powerful at 111 MH (for megahertz: 1,000,000 cycles per second) than at any other frequency. "This has been the biggest bombshell that I can remember in radio astronomy," he says. Caltech Astronomer Maarten Schmidt...
CURRENT speculation is that Brundage will attempt to postpone a final decision for as long as possible, despite daily Mexican and Communist demands for an immediate IOC decision. Brundage hopes the blustering will die away in time for the Olympics, but Frank Braun, president of the South African Committee, has said South Africa "will under no circumstances withdraw from the Games." And the protesting Africans regard this as an important demonstration of their immature political muscle...
Villanova's Dave Patrick and Frank Murphy took first and second. Patrick, who has now won the event three years running, set a meet record with...