Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troop level climbs toward 400,000 men, as the price of war begins to crimp Great Society programs and boost taxes, Americans may find it harder than ever to accept the long war predicted by the Administration. Military men talk in terms of years, and though other officials insist that "something will give" long before that, few would risk curtailing the U.S. buildup...
...fight ignorance is as great as ever; 500,000 teen-agers a year contract venereal diseases. Since few parents are at ease discussing the subject with their sons and daughters, schools face little opposition when they try to add sexual education to their curricu lum. And the students themselves insist that they want the instruction. "I doubt that I will use algebra when I grow up, but I'll probably be married," says a Berkeley, Calif., high school senior...
...happened to the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, who helped organize an interdenominational protest committee called "Clergy Concerned about Viet Nam." Last month Berrigan's superiors ordered him to quit the committee and sent him off on a ten-week tour of Latin America. The Jesuits insist that the assignment was "routine." Berrigan's friends believe that his exile was forced upon the Jesuits by the Most Rev. John Maguire, who was acting head of the New York Archdiocese while Francis Cardinal Spellman was in Rome for the Vatican Council. Archdiocesan officials say that they were...
Most National League officials still insist that the A.F.L. cannot come close to the N.F.L. on the playing field. "My impression," says Giant Coach Allie Sherman, "is that the caliber of ball in the American League is closer to that of the Big Ten than the N.F.L." Remarks like that provoke wrath in such A.F.L. coaches as San Diego's Sid Gillman and New York's Weeb Ewbank-both of whom coached title-winning teams in the N.F.L. before switching. "The two leagues are absolutely equal now," says Gillman. "Our top teams are every bit as good...
Those who suggest that the reports be circulated only to the department chairmen present two arguments. They insist that ad hominem comments in the reports should not be published and also argue that department chairmen and members will tend to be less cooperative with the HPC if they know that the information may be made public...