Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ACCORDING to Kraslow and Loory, the coordination problem arose largely as result of a decision by Lyndon Johnson to gather into his own hands, and those of his top advisors, the day by day controls over the war. By June, 1966, Johnson's concern with the war was so great that he, Rusk and McNamara were choosing at Tuesday lunches all the sites to be bombed for the coming week. This was simply more detail than he could handle, and with his vast responsibilities he had little time to follow the progress of peace initiatives. The one bureaucratic agency which...
...James Bogle to head his "Citizens for Rock" group. About twenty per cent of party boss Gordon St. Angelo's precincts are now under liberal control. Following the November election, the old McCarthy organization and a few other liberals (Kennedy imported his May primary machine, leaving few Kennedyites) will gather to form a permanent political group to work within the party for progressive party and elected officials. By the 1970 party elections this New Politics group--hopefully with sizable black community support--expects to be a significant group. Purdue professor Robert Toale is the man to watch...
Wherever water wells up in the vast, arid reaches of northeastern Iran, improbable pockets of green blossom in the hostile landscape. People gather in isolated hamlets and towns to scratch out their precarious, remote existence. One such town was Kakhk, a cluster of blue-plastered, mud-brick buildings where 7,000 Iranians lived. At 2:17 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground...
...convention, the highhandedness of the police and the general air of repression in Mayor Daley's Chicago. "The only people who can possibly feel at ease at this convention," wrote the New York Times's Russell Baker, "are those who have been to a hanging." "We gather," NBC's David Brinkley told his network audience, "that the Democratic leadership does not want reported what is happening." CBS's Walter Cronkite concluded one night by complaining: "It makes us want to pack up our cameras and typewriters and go home...
...well-probably even enough to keep his devoted but high-living mistress in style in the English manor house they occupied before his last illness. As it was, when the tree-blasting lightning struck, he went placidly and obediently, his dog Sponge at his bedside, fully aware, as Willa Gather once said, that "all his life was a preparation for sudden departure...