Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rhetoric and maneuvers last week, there was some doubt that peace on the nation's campuses could soon be imposed, either by force or reason. The university is no longer merely an ivory tower for the scholarly or only a vehicle for economic elevation. It is very much a part of the world it lives in. As long as that world is in upheaval, there will be sympathetic campus vibrations...
...Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen with unabashed political passion. He requited the wooing. The Senate Minority Leader helped pass important L.B.J.-sponsored legislation, and in return reaped prominence and prestige. Ironically, Dirksen's influence has declined since the Republicans won the White House. The reason: he is no longer the foremost elected G.O.P. official in Washington, and Republican Senators look to the President for leadership. Now, instead of cooperating, Dirksen prefers to harass the executive branch...
...opposition to anti-ballistic-missile systems and said so to Nixon's advisers. The President acknowledged publicly that he was shelving the Long appointment because of the ABM issue. Last week, however, Nixon reversed himself, admitting that he had been wrong (by that time Long was no longer interested in the job). Nixon's statement seemed to be a rebuke to Dirksen...
...they are of greatness, the French could not help mourning its passing. No one expressed it better than one of France's most distinguished political writers, Pierre Viansson-Ponté: "Even among his opponents, even among those who campaigned relentlessly for the 'No,' even among those Frenchmen who could no longer stand his self-assurance and his pride, many felt a sudden pang when they thought of him on Sunday night. Thirty years on the stage, sometimes in the glare of the footlights, sometimes in silhouette, eleven years of absolutism, long tempered by his own resolve, later by anarchy, and this...
...longer the discussions go on, the less tenable the technical objections become," he said. He added, "They're left with nothing to attack us on except political issues...