Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights workers as ante bellum. Some of his financial dealings raise the specter of Fortas-like improprieties, different though the cases are. All that was known, and seemingly surmounted, during the initial weeks of Senate hearings on his nomination. Then a fresh round of G.O.P. grumblings on Capitol Hill signaled that rancor was turning into revolt. Faced with insurgence, which if combined with Democratic votes could lead eventually to defeat of the Haynsworth nomination, Richard Nixon dug in his heels. Presidential prestige and power faced off against the liberal conscience within the G.O.P...
William Fulbright spoke for many in the U.S.-even some who otherwise disagree with him-when he said: "I object to the policy that we should all keep quiet and hope for the best." The newly aroused protesters, both on Capitol Hill and on the campuses, seem in no mood to be silenced. Charles Goodell, eager to make a liberal reputation in liberal New York before next year's election, is pressing his bill to remove all U.S. troops from South Viet Nam by December 1970. Administration strategists think the proposal should be brought to a vote soon...
...campuses, those tactics on Oct. 15 will vary widely. The Congress itself has been urged to participate by two dozen Democratic Senators and Representatives, who announced that they will boycott legislative business on Capitol Hill that day. They include such war critics as Senators George McGovern, Edward Kennedy, Edmund Muskie and William Fulbright. Their idea has spread so widely that there is some doubt whether the Senate will be able to collect a quorum on M-Day. The Republican Party's liberal Ripon Society is backing the moratorium. At the community level, Buffalo Mayor Frank A. Sedita has proclaimed...
Television does not suggest this. It gives us Eric Sevaried, that sallow Odin, reading one hundred sensible words as insurance against controversy, never mentioning that Chicago, or the capture of Hill 881 was an unconscionable waste of life. It gives us commercials of flagellating concupiscence so that, after twenty years of them, we begin to view the whole world as a commodity, the uncommitted and benighted as the greatest consumer product. As it crowds more harrowing specials into the week, we turn away with less and less hesitation. It is possible that if Jesus Christ had spoken only on television...
With about a mile and a half remaining the Crimson top four were still clustered, but not far behind were four Penn harriers. But Harvard's Roy Shaw was beginning to move. On Cemetery Hill, the four-mile mark on the five-mile course. Shaw passed Dan Stevens...