Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Letter Writer Dooskin [Aug. 2] should know that there was at least one demonstrator for the Czech cause. An American by naturalization but a Czechoslovak by birth, I ran around to my liberal friends and tried to work up a little low-keyed demonstration. They responded yawningly, "Oh yes, I did hear something about something going on . . . Uh, where is it now?" So, I took myself on a lonely little freedom march up Fifth Avenue. Needless to say, nobody even noticed me. Why wasn't there more response? Because protesters are programmed to protest "liberal, new-left, pro-revolutionary...
When Israeli jets whooshed low over the Jordanian town of Salt one midmorning last week, the townspeople paid scant heed. Though Salt is only 13 miles from King Hussein's palace in Amman, the incursion was not unusual. Jordan's air force was destroyed in last year's Six-Day War, and Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority...
...television's, star of the week, though, was Anchorman Walter Cronkite. It was sweet vindication. In 1964, when the CBS news rating fell off, the panic-stricken network jettisoned him between conventions. This year, keeping on a "low-residue diet, a trick I learned from the astronauts," and forsaking his pipe to keep his throat moist, Cronkite stayed on top of the story all week. He constantly re-queried his field men when he thought they did not question pungently enough. He got off his share of quips. He correctly forecast, for example, that the nominating speech for Senator...
...vide the plants with cheap power. Each company will build its own smelter and invest jointly with the government in a power plant. The government will contribute 30-year loans totaling $149 million to cover the investment in the power stations and will charge the companies special low rates for the electricity they...
...drew his biggest standing ovation of the evening when he said, "When respect for the United States has fallen so low that a fourth-rate military power like North Korea will hijack a United States vessel on the high seas, it is time for new leadership to restore respect for the United States of America...