Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Republican Senator elected from Texas since Reconstruction days elicited the loudest huzzahs of the night when he said about the Berlin crisis, "There is a great deal of talk about negotiation. We should not sit at the conference table until the great wall is brought down...
...Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered 1,000 marchers to the Soviet embassy in London, but only 200 turned up to picket the U.S. embassy after the U.S. announced it would resume tests. C.N.D. Chairman Canon Collins insisted halfheartedly: "At present, it is Mr. Khrushchev who is shouting threats loudest, but we have to remember that both sides are to blame." Bertrand Russell's Committee of 100 was more inflexible, handed out blue leaflets declaring, "America, we denounce you. The decision by the American Government to resume nuclear tests is criminal. It in no way is justified by Russian resumption...
With the broad outline, the delegates found little to bicker about. The loudest bickering came from Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar. Che Guevara. Che, author of one of the basic Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing...
...stiff. As personnel chief for the world's biggest corporation, Seaton takes unconcealed pleasure and pride in his responsibility for the pay, training, health and morale of G.M.'s 556,000 employees. When he is at the bargaining table, voices rarely rise, fists seldom pound, and the loudest sound is often the Seaton chuckle. Says Leonard Woodcock. U.A.W. vice president in charge of the G.M. locals: "Lou has an intuition for what the key problem is in a plant. If Seaton weren't around, I think we'd have hell running out of our ears...
Died. George Wilson ("Molly") Malone, 70, dour, right-wing Nevada Republican, a onetime collegiate middleweight boxing champ who, during two U.S. Senate terms (1947 to 1959), flailed away at foreign aid, NATO, reciprocal trade, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, was one of Joe McCarthy's loudest backers and pride of the silver lobby; of cancer; in Washington...