Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black-power speeches by Stokely Carmichael and a few more statements from Martin Luther King comparing the U.S. role in Viet Nam to Hitler's in Europe, Wallace might even improve on that performance. But he has failed to win the expected backing of Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox. Moreover, Wallace's favorite pitches-for states' rights and against integration-may lose some of their punch when voters begin to realize that Alabama gets 75% of its welfare budget from the evil Government in Washington, that 300 Negroes are attending the University of Alabama now that...
Cabinet Reshuffle. Taking advantage of the few remaining days before he becomes immersed in wining and dining visiting rulers and royalty, Prime Minister Lester Pearson last week made a series of appointments aimed at strengthening Canada's top echelon of officials. First, he reached among his former political rivals for a new Governor General to succeed Georges Philias Vanier, who died last month. His choice to represent the Queen in Canada is Daniel Roland Michener, 66, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and onetime Speaker of the House whose latest post has been that of Canada's High...
Most of the states affected greeted the order with relative calm. A few politicians denounced it, notably Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, who called the court's decision "ungodly and un-American...
...Volpe what he had done, he called the whole business "quite ridiculous." Then lawyers pointed out that in 1954 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court advised Governor Christian Herter against accepting an appointment to a similar federal commission lest he jeopardize his office. Late last week, Democratic State Committee chairman Lester S. Hyman attacked Volpe's "flippancy" about the matter. Volpe became considerably unnerved...
Undoubtedly the draft is responsible for some of this sudden upsurge in academic fervor. Lester sees still other causes. "During the Kennedy years," he says, "students were more enthusiastic about government service. Now they want something to fall back on. It's not just Johnson's personal nature...it's also...