Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Banner, Princeton University: "His Administration was a period of drift rather than mastery. There was a social revolution occurring, and Eisenhower was not aware of it. He left it to Kennedy and Johnson, who came almost too late. At the same time, it was Eisenhower and only Eisenhower who struck out at the military-industrial complex. That was the high point of his presidency...
Ayub added: "The country's economic system is paralyzed. Every problem is now being solved in the streets. Mobs surround any place they like and force acceptance of whatever they like. There is nobody left to raise a righteous voice." Accordingly, the President declared, there was no alternative but for the army's chief of staff, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, to assume all the powers of government...
...thought of actually imposing a solution. "I do not think such a solution would work," said British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart. "On the other hand, there is clearly the necessity to have some degree of persuasion by the four powers." The precise extent of such "persuasion" was left carefully undefined, and Washington braced itself for the arrival of Jordan's King Hussein, due April 8 on a formal visit designed to put forth the Arab views. Hussein's visit is the latest round in the diplomatic minuet over the Middle East that brought Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
Birds chattered and giggled overhead. A long-tailed black lizard bobbed its head in the heat. Then the first line of the 55th went in, and the lizard was suddenly gone. The bush erupted with sharp bursts of automatic fire. An incoming mortar round decapitated a palm tree and left three men writhing and mangled. The periodic silences between bursts were broken by frightened screaming birds. Wounded men straggled back. Their black faces shaded gray by shock, they handed weapons and ammunition to their replacements. There was the unmistakable whistle of a 105-mm. howitzer. "Don't worry," said...
Nonetheless, there are good reasons why even the best experts should disagree. One is that only difficult borderline mental cases ever get to court in the first place. Defendants who show obvious symptoms of illness are committed to institutions immediately, as incompetent to stand trial. The offenders who are left, Yale Law School Professor Abraham S. Goldstein points out, are usually men who seem calm in the dock even though they may have been seriously disordered at the time of the crime...