Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enter into; 2) it would say, in effect, that he had been wrong, and Hanoi would thus receive an immeasurable lift; 3) the President would be surrendering his responsibilities to a committee; 4) the names Kennedy proposed constituted a "stacked deck"; and 5) in any event, he had already heard the views of some of those on Kennedy's list...
...district party meetings across Czechoslovakia, other comrades hissed the speakers, clamored to be heard and demanded to know the names of those who had opposed reforms within the party. Throughout the country last week, the tides of liberalization churned ahead with torrential force...
Extraordinary Events. As the country's leaders continued to examine their own consciences, some extraordinary events were occurring. The Czechoslovak Supreme Court decided to review all cases heard in the 1950s in a search for those who may have been falsely accused and unjustly convicted. After five days of meetings, reported the newspaper Rude Pravo, party watchdogs in the Foreign Ministry "demanded that the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia have a new face." Strangest of all, the party censors in the Interior Ministry announced that they wanted to go out of business. "We have reached the conclusion," they said, "that...
Playwright William Gibson, 53, best known for The Miracle Worker, is a demon letter writer as well. He heard the talk about 206,000 more troops for Viet Nam and fired off a guided missive to the Berkshire Eagle from his home town of Stockbridge, Mass. "I am offering in all sobriety a reward of $25,000," he wrote, "to anyone who devises and successfully executes a plan to draft Lyndon B. Johnson, put him in uniform complete with butterfly net, and ship him off to the rice paddies." Potential applicants for the prize may be put off by Gibson...
...Musique pour Lisbonne, a chamber piece that he has composed especially for this spring's Gulbenkian Festival in that city. As for the New Orleans piece, Milhaud was plainly puzzled; Torkanowsky, he said, had told him only that the performance of it had been "delayed." When the composer heard about Torkanowsky's public statement, he merely snorted, "Silly!" -and went back to work...