Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rogers is proud that his record is unmarked by a single public statement on Viet Nam. But when Nixon last week named Henry Cabot Lodge, his 1960 running mate, to be chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, it seemed to many that the new Administration was at last tipping its hand. Lodge, who twice served as U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, was the instrument of American power in Viet Nam at crucial moments of the war. A number of commentators argued that his selection was a signal that Nixon was committed to a tough policy and that the Communists could hope...
...teachers' move. Claiming that "a militant minority of the faculty has hitchhiked on the miltant student violence-ridden strike for a vicious power-grab," Hayakawa cannily announced that under state college rules, any teacher who missed classes for five consecutive days "automatically resigned." But Hayakawa soon lost the upper hand when the teachers' strike received some unexpected backing. The San Francisco area Labor Council voted to approve the teachers' strike and forbade its members from crossing the picket line. Many of the labor leaders had led local Wallace forces during the Presidential campaign, and they were quick to point...
...January 6 opening day drew near, it became obvious that substantive questions of black student demands were being lost in the face of Hayakawa's challenge to the students' physical power. When Hayakawa none-too-subtly announced that hundreds of city police would be on hand to enforce "orderly opening" of the college, groups of students--BSU members, Third Worlders, and unaffiliated students--said that the college would not open...
First at Pennsylvania, where Kanuth tried to operate with an undiagnosed and unpublicized foot injury, and then at Princeton. Harvard came within an eyelash of gaining the upper hand only to see promising bursts disappear in swarms of fouls or turnovers...
Henry, who co-authored The Gradaute with Calder Willingham, reveals his true limp creative hand this time around. There are so few laughs in Candy that one must conclude that anything funny in Henry's earlier film came from either Willingham or director Mike Nichols. Likewise, the often funny television series of a few years back, Get Smart, which was co-authored by Henry and Mel Brooks, apparently owed its humor to Brooks...