Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOSEPH L. DE GROOT Flainfield, Ill...
...party should expand the idea of civil rights beyond giving equal rights to Negroes to include equal rights for the mentally ill and juveniles involved in crimes...
Longhanding. De Gaulle's unhappiest ally was undoubtedly Erhard, who has been buffeted for weeks by a series of ill foreign winds. One from the Middle East finally blew itself out last week with the formalization of diplomatic relations between West Germany and Israel-a historic decision that surprisingly drew hardly a squeak from the Arabs. Another has been Erhard's deteriorating relations with Treaty Partner France. But from the Elysée Palace came another balm-a friendly longhand letter from De Gaulle saying he would be glad to move up the date of his next meeting...
...with Pope Pius XII, who squashed any overhaul at a 1957 General Congregation by warning the delegates against "the prideful spirit of 'free investigation.' " Another proximate cause was Father General Janssens, an ascetic and kindly Belgian who, for much of his term as "Black Pope," was too ill to handle the volume of clerical business that the Jesuit constitution demanded of him. Janssens, says one veteran German Jesuit, was "a noble spirit but not necessarily a great leader...
...yellow is the grand color of the ancient empire; pale blue-a funeral color-is used only by unsavvy art directors. A package tipped on its side suggests business collapse, and a half-filled pack of cigarettes conjures up visions of half-empty rice bowls. Because comets are ill omens, British Overseas Airways Corp. has renamed its Comet 4 "Hui Sing," which means "star of wisdom...