Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insist on fobbing off Robert Kennedy's political strength on some sort of mystical personality cult? The fact is that no other living man can show credentials of experience and accomplishment equal to his at his age-even fuller and more distinguished than John Kennedy's at the same...
...India's Defense Minister, Y. B. Chavan, has warned Parliament that Pakistan was receiving 200 tanks and 125 planes, including supersonic MIG-19 fighters and 11-28 bombers, from Red China. In addition, Pakistan has recently acquired 90 Canadian-built F-86 Sabres from Iran. Indian officials insist that Pakistan has concluded a secret military pact with Red China. "We are pretty sure that they have an understanding to help each other up to point X," says one external-affairs aide, "but we don't know what point...
Hardly at Peace. Efforts to implement the Tashkent peace plan have foundered on the issue over which the border war erupted: Kashmir. The Indians insist that further talks be broadened beyond the question of control of the troubled state; Pakistan will discuss nothing but Kashmir. True to the Tashkent agreement, each side has withdrawn its troops a few miles behind the cease-fire line. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been restored, and Pakistani and Indian airliners once again overfly one another's territory...
...Paris Dying? With new talent surging to the fore, does this mean that American designers now set the styles-that Paris, the fashion capital of the world for the past four centuries, is dying? Many designers and editors in the U.S. insist today that it does. They point out how many times in recent years U.S. designers have shown the way. St. Laurent's "pop art" dresses this year look much like U.S. teen-age fad dresses of last summer. The hit of Bohan's collection for Dior this July was the "Doctor Zhivago" long coat, coupled with...
Cautious as such criticism is, it represents something so unusual in Mormonism that one church leader has ominously declared: "Dialogue can't help but hurt the church." Nonetheless, Dialogue's growing subscription list now stands at more than 3,000, and its editors insist that Mormonism has nothing to fear from self-appraisal. Says Managing Editor Eugene England: "A man need not relinquish his faith to be intellectually respectable, nor his intellect to be faithful...