Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted the ladies to get in on the act. "I just wonder," said the President, "if the women of this country couldn't get out their lead pencils and put on their glasses and look at some of these price lists and say goodbye to those products that insist on going up and up. Just say, 'I don't have to have that. I will just substitute.' " The President had already revealed that he had asked Lady Bird to buy cheaper cuts of meat for the White House. Now he confessed that they had long been...
...President and the Prime Minister had much to talk about. President Johnson hoped to help strengthen India so that it can take its place along with Japan as a bulwark against Chinese Communist expansion in Asia. In the talks, he would gently insist that India must take steps to control its population growth, revamp its outmoded agricultural methods, and find some modus vivendi with Pakistan so that the two bitter foes do not expend their economic resources arming against each other...
...membership did not conflict with their duties. This horrified the liberal Lindsay, whereupon Leary proclaimed that he was "repelled and nauseated" by Birch dogma and would forbid police membership in the society if he had the legal authority. Lindsay strongly defended himself. "It is sheer insanity," he said, "to insist that I as mayor do not have the obligation to see that any commissioner staffs his department with the best people...
France's North Atlantic Treaty partners have long since resigned themselves to a breakup in the family provoked by Charles de Gaulle. Many thought he would disavow the treaty-or, at the very least, insist on NATO's complete overhaul and reform. But last week, in letters penned by the master of the Elysée in his long, sloping hand and sent to President Johnson and other NATO-country chiefs, De Gaulle at last spelled out his concept of a separation agreement. It turned out that he had in mind neither a complete divorce nor a fresh...
...KENNEDY ROUND: The Geneva tariff negotiations, originally proposed by President Kennedy, and aimed at history's deepest international tariff cuts, have been stalled by the French boycott of EEC. The bargaining cannot resume until the EEC fixes its farm prices, because the U.S. insists that farm as well as industrial products be included. Europe is under pressure to move swiftly, because the law enabling the U.S. to negotiate expires July 1, 1967. Meantime, the Germans insist that they cannot afford to pay the EEC treasury big farm subsidies, which will chiefly enrich French farmers, unless their industries can profit...