Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From left: Cleaveland's Carl Stokes, Chicago's Richard Daley, New York's John Lindsay, Nixon, Urban Affairs' Pat Moynihan, Syracuse's William Walsh, Boston's Kevin White, and Office of Economice Opportunity Director Donald Rumsfeld...
...settlement of the war that meant an outright Communist takeover of South Viet Nam either immediately or in three to five years' time. But twice that number, 18%, would agree to ending the war by setting up a coalition government including Communists, even if such a settlement left the Viet Cong in position to dominate South Viet Nam eventually. More broadly, 83% would like to see some solution that would neutralize Southeast Asia so that it is neither pro-American nor proCommunist...
...only Nazi prisoner left in West Berlin's forbidding Spandau Prison, Rudolf Hess marked his 75th birthday in grim solitude. There were no gifts, not even from his wife and son, whom he has refused to see during his 22-year incarceration at Spandau because, in his twisted mind, he believes it improper for them to see him in prison. So Hess spent a typical day, walking alone in the garden and feeding the few birds that alight there. Had history taken a different turn, he might have enjoyed the company of another birthday celebrator. Adolf Hitler would have...
...hardly the first, however: since 1965, about 2,000 Jesuits have left the 36,000-member order. Schoenenberger's departure grew directly out of a broader, long-brewing struggle between the rebellious young Jesuits in the Dutch church and Father Arrupe, the order's moderately progressive but increasingly worried "Black Pope." Last fall a Jesuit chaplain to Roman Catholic students in Amsterdam announced that he intended to marry and continue in the priesthood. Two other young Jesuits gave him public support, and early this month were dismissed from the order by Arrupe. The Provincial of the Dutch Jesuits...
Most of Madden's own right eye was left in place, with its muscles, blood vessels and the all-important optic nerve, intact. What was transplanted was the cornea, with the iris and lens-roughly, the front third of the eyeball. Since the donor eye had been refrigerated and deprived of its blood supply before transplantation, there was little or no chance that it would give Madden any useful vision...