Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old university student who watched with great hope and anticipation while a man I never had heard of, in a country never spoken of, built carefully, step by step, that intangible but priceless object-freedom. Then came the familiar rumbling of iron tanks. Bitterly, I look to my leaders to find them afraid of intervening, yet ever anxious to send more and more troops to a corner in Southeast Asia, where they care about neither Communism nor freedom. I turn to the United Nations and find them playing a game that they can never win. And most bitterly...
Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
...Crane gloated too soon. Although he scribbled furiously all of his short life (twelve volumes of novels, poems, sketches, short stories), none of his later works ever remotely approached the success of The Red Badge, written before he had ever heard a shot fired in anger. When he died of tuberculosis in a German sanatorium on June 5, 1900, not yet 29, he was destitute and had been begging money from his literary friends, including Henry James and Joseph Conrad. His brother had to pay to have his body brought home to New Jersey for burial. It was the sort...
...ADORE him," declares Melina Mercouri. "He knows how to cry." Says Angela Lansbury: "He has antennae most people haven't even heard of." Others are more to the point. "If I had an affair with Jack the Ripper," sighs Valley of the Dolls Novelist Jacqueline Susann, "the offspring would be Rex Reed...
Shipping can be a hard-knuckled business, but never had the Australian Tonnage Committee, a group of 15 shipping companies involved in Europe-Australia trade, heard such a barefisted challenge. Dropping in at the committee's London office recently, N. I. ("Nicky") Zuev, vice president of the Soviet Union's ship-chartering agency Sovfracht, was in a vile mood. He complained that the committee, which is made up of shipping operators from eight countries, had unfairly treated the Russians, then warned: "Now we're going...