Word: ills
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ill-Considered Insinuation. The rumors were apparently touched off by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Eafle Wheeler in a Feb. 1 closed-door appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In response to a hypothetical question from Republican Hawk Strom Thurmond, according to leaked reports, Wheeler said that the Pentagon would indeed recommend use of nukes if the outcome of the Khe Sanh battle depended on their deployment. He had emphasized earlier, however, that he believed Khe Sanh could be held without their use. Moreover, he did not suggest that the President would permit their use even...
...Eugene McCarthy's claim that demands had already been made for the deployment of nukes, declared that such speculation "is false and also unfair to the armed forces. I might add that irresponsible discussion and speculation is a disservice to the country." Rusk later repeated Christian's ill-considered insinuation that such inquiries were unpatriotic...
...find one pressure point to hit: the rigidly all-white New York Athletic Club, which was celebrating the 100th anniversary of its annual track meet at Manhattan's new Mad ison Square Garden. With the support of militant Negro groups, including H. Rap Brown's ill-named Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Edwards got scores of Negroes to withdraw from the meet. For those who remained unconvinced, he announced that he would throw a picket line around the Garden, and "any black athlete who crosses that line will be in trouble...
SATURDAY night 40-odd students, faculty and alumni of Yale sang of God, war, the Russian land, and love. The jingoism of some of the texts seemed a little ill-timed, but this apparently bothered the audience of Harvard academics not at all. The group's contagious enthusiasm and thoroughly convincing musicality brought the audience cheering and stamping to its feet...
Continental bondmen fear that Washington will soon clamp down on convertible issues. Many European investors, they report, are simply selling their American stocks to raise cash to buy such bonds. Such sales siphon dollars abroad, and the U.S. can ill afford the extra drain on its balance of payments...