Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the vituperation expended on McCarthy's campaign style by intellectuals is unjustified. The Senator's response to Senator MacIntyre's charge that he had not spelled out his programs--"I'm beginning to think the Senator either can't read or doesn't hear very well"--might equally be applied to the liberal intellectuals...
...fire zone outside Quang Ngai was just eight or ten kilometers from the city center. What this meant is that peasants working out in the field were regularly subjected to firing, to bombing, to harrassment. All night long as we lay in our beds at Quang Ngai, we could hear the mortars and artillery and the helicopters raining down their terror on different parts of the countryside. And in the morning the results were quite clear. The litters carrying people in from the countryside with the gaping holes in their bodies, the wounded limbs, and the broken bones...
...York reception stepped dissident Democratic candidate Senator Eugene McCarthy, 51. The Minnesotan, who had spent the week slogging through wintry New Hampshire, found a more congenial welcome at the Manhattan town house of Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper. About 200 friendly writers, artists and jet-setters crowded around to hear him proclaim that "it is necessary now to admit to a kind of complete failure in Viet Nam." Poet Robert Lowell responded on the spot by announcing that he has formed a brand-new National Committee of Arts and Letters for McCarthy for President...
When Edwards heard that Jim Hines, Texas' world record-holding sprinter, still planned to run, he growled: "I hear he wants to play pro football. Some cats in Texas have personally said they'd fix it so he'd be on sticks if he's crazy enough to run in that meet." Hines withdrew, and so did Olympic High Jumper John Thomas, after receiving telephoned threats...
...Among other things, they have helped to improve personnel and pay policies. The senate in Providence, R.I. won a 100% increase in pastors' salaries-from $150 to $300 a month-plus a $50-a-month car allowance. Senates have also helped establish mandatory retirement ages, "personnel boards" to hear the complaints of dissatisfied priests, and programs allowing priests to continue their education...