Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assembly of old soldiers" who had no stomach for real revolution. Scuffles broke out on the floor, and Danny was hustled out and locked up in a backstage room for half an hour until a semblance of order could be restored. He returned just in time to hear Mexican Delegate Domingo Rojas blame Soviet influence and Fidel Castro for the sad lot of Cuban anarchists languishing in exile in Miami. "Viva Castro!" shouted Danny. "Your anarchists are paid by the CIA." Once again the congress exploded. "Fascist! You're a fascist!" yelled the delegates. With that, Danny...
...weak case. Rhody McCoy, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville administrator, finally filed charges against ten of the teachers. He cited the "excessive lateness" of one, the failure of four others to maintain class discipline, unspecified opposition to the decentralization experiment by others. A retired Negro judge appointed to hear the cases found that witnesses could not document incidents or convincingly detail the teachers' failings, recommended that the ten be retained. McCoy insists that they cannot return. Shanker and the central school board insist that they must. The U.F.T. fears that decentralization would break up its power base and leave teachers...
...evidence nor search warrant, they clubbed McCarthy campaign workers. One cop actually broke his billy club on a volunteer's skull. Daley stood by his angry defense of his cops' conduct against the "terrorists," who, he snarled, "use the foulest of language that you wouldn't hear in a brothel house...
...never so hurried that he loses the grace of an adagio and never so relaxed that he loses the punch of an allegro. He has a gifted sense of measure but, happily, never seems to be measuring. To hear him bring out the bittersweet tonal anguish lurking in the Symphony No. 39 was to realize for once just how much romantic sentiment really filled the classical little heart of Mozart...
...meeting was relatively routine. The participants reviewed the skimpy information available, speculated on the Soviets' motives, decided that a response be given to Dobrynin immediately. Rusk summoned the ambassador to the State Department for an 11:30 p.m. meeting to hear a strongly worded U.S. protest against the invasion. Rusk specifically rejected the contentions that Prague invited the intervention and that there had been any external threat to Czechoslovakia. Between the lines was Washington's all too apparent awareness that it could do as little in secret as it could openly to save Czechoslovakia from its fate...