Word: maine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Department that Robert McNamara took over in 1961 was already inching, however painfully, toward internal unity. The new Secretary substituted revolution for evolution to create an entirely new order and installed it so firmly that its main lines will most likely prove irreversible...
...donors. Mrs. Kindermann's fifth-grade class needed no prompting to write Primitivo in the hospital. "I am thanking you for saving Mrs. Kindermann's life and her baby," wrote one girl. "Our room is learning Spanish. Our city is not that bad, but the main thing is, get well. I hope you pass all your tests so that you can become an American." Three operations failed to save him, however, and 13 days after the incident at Westport he died of blood poisoning and complications brought about by the bullet that had pierced his pancreas...
...found Israel guilty on three progressively perturbing counts. It went to war against his admonition, which was bad enough. It won, which was even worse. But most heinous of all, the victory benefited the image of the U.S. as Israel's main supporter. So, in a long historical ramble on Israel's origins that shocked the French by its antiSemitism, De Gaulle described the lews as "an elite people, sure of themselves and dominating." The state of Israel after 1956, he said, was a "warrior, and determined to enlarge itself...
...criminal prosecution of the owners, writers and distributors of the so-called 'hippie' newspapers now being sold through the City." Of course, the order was not necessary. Working through the permit ordinance--and outside state and Constitutional law--DeGuglielmo had already begun his attack on a newsppaer whose main fault, in the eyes of City Hall, is that it serves as the inflammatory voice of the hippie-radical movement...
...United States Supreme Court, in the course of the last ten years, has set up and elaborated standardds which determine if material is obscene. These standards come down to three main tests...