Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognize the efforts that have been made by millions of right-thinking people in this country." Richard Nixon and others zeroed in on the commission's failure to place heavy blame on the rioters themselves. "I think," said Nixon, "the commission has put undue emphasis on the idea that we are in effect a racist society." Vice President Hubert Humphrey also had some doubts about the commission's conclusion that the U.S. was moving toward a form of apartheid. "It may be true, although it is open to some challenge," he said. "If it becomes a nightmare reality...
...ballot to keep the state's delegation theoretically uncommitted at the convention, but Teddy gingerly refused. House Speaker John McCormack, 76, also demurred. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, a Springfield native, volunteered to quit his Washington post and run as a standin, but Johnson vetoed the idea, as well as the proposal that State Senate President Maurice Donahue take...
...efforts to get the diary, according to her version in the current Ramparts, were filled with intrigue. First she called on Bolivian President René Barrientos and planted the idea with him that her own bidding would drive up the price of the diary. She "borrowed" a key in order to rifle the hotel room of the chief U.S. negotiator; in the meantime, she wrote, the Bolivian police visited hers. When it looked as if the U.S. consortium might get the diary, Michéle offered $400,000, though her backer had no intention of paying that much. The Bolivians...
...result, the history of many troupes has been distinction verging on extinction. Fortunately, the Ford Foundation had a better idea. Since 1963, it has given a total of nearly $9,000,000 to major dance groups, while the National Endowment for the Arts has divvied up another $1,000,000. Says National Arts Council President Roger Stevens: "Dance needs money more than any of the other arts. A writer needs pencil and paper, a painter needs canvas and paints. But a choreographer needs bodies, and they have to be paid." They are not paid very well; while a top Balanchine...
Kaplan said yesterday's meeting marked "a great day for student government at Harvard." He added that once students have worked on an idea and formulated proposals they should be allowed to speak before the Committee. In the past students have been permitted only to submit written proposals to the group...