Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sadly told them: "This is the tree I expect to be buried under. When my grandchildren see this tree, I want them to think of me as the man who saved Asia and Viet Nam and who did something for the Negroes of this country. Yet I have lost popularity on Viet Nam and on the Negro question." The President's aides claim that Johnson's brooding reached "a point of crystallization" some time last fall. When General William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, visited the U.S. in November, Johnson asked how American troops would react...
...party, of region, of religion, of race, is a house that cannot stand." Yet, he con tinued, "there is division in the American house now. There is divisiveness among us all tonight." Said the President: "What we won when all of our people united just must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics among any of our people. And believing this as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. With American sons in the fields far away...
...other opening-day action the New York Mets blew a two-run lead in the ninth inning and lost to the San Francisco Giants 5-4. Also...
Terry Oxford and Bruce Weigand stroked out wins at five and six to clinch the team victory for Harvard. Weigand lost the first set and was trailing 4-3 in the second before he rallied to gain his triumph...
...provoke a veritable Scopes trial in reverse, at the end of which Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans) resolves to castrate Heston and reduce him otherwise to a vegetable. His ape sponsors, however, rescue him, and together they journey to a cave where McDowall claims to have unearthed evidence of a lost human culture. Evans arrives, dynamites the cave, and mercifully lets Heston go his way, complete with mute mate. But after traveling some miles down the beach, Heston discovers the Statue of Liberty buried waist-high in sand, thus revealing the great secret that the planet of the apes is dear...