Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watchdog over the Executive, this would mean that the initial impulse for social change would always have to come from the masses themselves. Bundy's implied judgment-- that giving a veto power to the public would mean the end of all social action-- is clearly correct, given the present level of social awareness of the American people...
...awarding fellowships to young foreign scholars who will return to teach in their own countries, the Center hopes to raise the low level of international interest in American history...
...influence with the President because, one observer suggests, he has developed some doubts about the war. So has Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms, who made the mistake of questioning some of the rosy statistics coming out of Saigon. In both the Defense and State Departments, many sub-Cabinet-level officials flatly oppose sending as many men to Viet Nam as some of the military chiefs would like, but it is uncertain whether their objections are getting through to the President...
...bosses traded hugs and kisses aplenty. Bulgaria's Premier and Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, the host, Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček and Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu-all greeted each other effusively. As the second high-level Communist meeting in as many weeks wore on, however, the bruises soon outnumbered the busses...
...West Germany's unsold autos. Ford sales for last January were off 35% and production schedules have been cut by one-third. Finally, arriving at the company's Cologne headquarters, Ford and Knudsen found half a dozen empty executive suites; they had been vacated by top-level managers of Ford who had jumped to other companies...