Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not appease a raucous Negro population with heavy legislation for human rights, how is the comparatively conservative Nixon expected to do so? If a liberal Democratic President could not manage a liberal Democratic Congress, how is the conservative Republican expected to maneuver the same Congress? If the leader of a labor-oriented political party could not pacify the rebellious labor unions, how is the leader of a big-business-oriented party expected to reason with labor? If the President who was swept into office in 1964 on the largest majority vote ever could not unite his country...
...Lyndon Johnson was seriously thinking of making amiable Mike Mansfield, majority leader of the Senate, his running mate instead of Hubert Humphrey. That way, the President reasoned, Humphrey could become majority leader, giving L.B.J. far more forceful Senate leadership and Humphrey a bigger reputation for an eventual presidential campaign of his own. It would also have spared Humphrey what was to become one of his most onerous burdens-his overly close association with an unpopular Administration. There were reports last week that Humphrey, too, had some unorthodox ideas this year about his own running mate: he wanted New York...
...Lochman, professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at the University of Prague, will preach in Memorial Church at 11 a.m. Sunday, and will also speak at Christ Church at 7:30 p.m. Sunday night. Lockman, a long-time leader in establishing communication between Christians and Communists in Czechoslovakia, left his country last summer after the Russian invasion...
...while they were happy, then thankful, then obsessed, then lonely, and then sad. "I can't seem to do this," said a tall boy in corduroy pants and a bright polka dot shirt. "There isn't enough space. I wish we were on a football field." The leader of the group tried to help him, while the others paired off to express themselves...
...college had been closed for a week after a series of similar disruptions during the strike called by the Black Students Union to enforce demands for re-instatement of a Black Panther leader on the faculty, a Black Studies Department, and increased hiring of Black faculty...