Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wedded. Both Presidents faced a grave dilemma that could profoundly influence the effectiveness-or in Thieu's case the survival-of their regimes. The National Liberation Front has thus far refused to countenance any suggestion of a political settlement in South Viet Nam that would perpetuate Thieu's "puppet regime." Yet the U.S. might damage Saigon's hard-won political stability if it were to jettison Thieu at this stage. In fact, the Midway meeting was designed to bolster Thieu's position with tributes to South Vietnamese courage and Washington-Saigon solidarity...
...printed word is not en route to oblivion. That reassuring information comes from Dr. Marshall McLuhan, who has been prophesying the demise of reading for years (and doing his best to hurry it into an early grave by writing some of the most perishable prose in memory). "The book is a very special form of communication," McLuhan told the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association in Washington. "It is unique and it will persist." As the nation's leading exponent of electronic communication, however, McLuhan could not resist at least one dig at the reading public, which...
...Some were unhappy about acts or statements of members of the University administration or governing boards, or impatient with what they regard as the slowness or bias of procedures for the redress of grievance. Some felt a deep urge to assert their solidarity with those who had taken a grave and perilous step and to establish a community in the midst of what many students deem a cold and impersonal University. Such motives were, on the whole, honorable and sometimes noble. However, the act itself--joining the forcible occupation of University Hall--must be severely judged. Those who joined...
...will be renamed for Robert F. Kennedy, as will ski slopes, chapels, high schools and bridges around the U.S. A game preserve in far away Tanzania will also be dedicated in his name. Congress has authorized $750,000 to build an access road and other improvements at his Arlington grave site. In the last year, five and a half million visitors have filed quietly past his grave, not far from the eternal flame that commemorates his elder brother, whom he later joined in the pantheon of American leaders...
...that all sides in Viet Nam seem willing to relinquish rhetorical pronunciamentos for real bargaining, the distances separating the adversaries on specific issues can begin to be measured. There is no substantial gap-in principle at least-on a number of items. On others, grave differences and difficulties remain...