Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea where he will work on the Roosevelt volumes once he has finished his work on Kennedy. Several sources had indicated last month that he would consider an offer from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. If he accepted such an offer, Schlesinger said, he would insist that he be kept free from teaching obligations...
...United States cannot afford to insist on isolation of all military regimes. A coup in Brazil, for example, could not profitably be opposed for long. But there is a difference between unwilling tolerance and declared acceptance of military dictatorship. If the United States, after 190 years of democratic government cannot distinguish between democracy and dictatorship, Latin American nations can hardly be expected to do so. If they cannot, there is slight hope for the peaceful and democratic change which U.S. policy should hope to foster...
...political handicap of his divorce and remarriage. That handicap will likely plague him wherever he goes. But after his New Hampshire defeat, he put on an optimistic air. Lodge's win, he said, was "a victory for moderation," since the voters had rejected "extremism in the party." He insisted that he had made a good showing: "I feel today's results are clear evidence of the strength I can develop by campaigning." >Richard Nixon, the beneficiary of a low-keyed but rewarding write-in campaign that was led by former Governor Wesley Powell, is hale and heartened...
...Downing Street: it was No. 5. Only during one of its many restorations did the simple Georgian town house in London somehow double its digit. Under any number, it never seemed to foreigners to be pretentious enough for the hub of the British Empire. But most Englishmen insist that it be kept just the way it always has been...
...goods, and Denmark has placed a 9%-sales tax on most nonfood products. In Italy the government's austerity program aims at raising taxes on cars and gasoline, restricting installment purchases. Some manufacturers protest that such measures may brake Europe's boom too hard, but political leaders insist that drastic action is needed to stop the rise in export prices and narrow the trade deficits that have been growing dangerously in Italy and Britain...