Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year I suggest Alexander Dubéek. The Czech revolution was the year's most dramatic show of man's attempt to change his institutions from arbiters of the absolute to servants of societies' needs. This attempt underlies the world's major stories of the decade...
Nixon's main trouble last week was that some major figures of both parties seemed reluctant to sign on. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was at least a possibility to go to the U.N., but a meeting last week with Nixon only hardened Rocky's conviction that he would rather remain Governor. Some observers also thought it doubtful that his brother David Rockefeller would accept a Nixon offer to become Secretary of the Treasury...
...address the National Urban League. Lady Bird was being feted at a private party, a sit-down dinner for 18, and the President decided to drop by to pick her up. That simple excursion from the Hotel Pierre to an apartment on the West Side turned into a major production, the sort that has frayed Johnson's patience-and is certain to fray that of his successor. As L.B.J. described the caper to friends afterward...
...convention week-there had been riots in Chicago's black ghettos in 1966 and again in April 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King. Mayor Daley's own riot-study committee (Daniel Walker was No. 2 man) cited the restraint practiced by the police as a major factor in keeping the April riots from becoming even "more violent and widespread." But after April 1968, Daley criticized his police for their restraint and urged them to shoot to kill arsonists and maim looters. Says the report: "The effect on the police became apparent several weeks later when they...
...speech given in Lowell Lecture Hall, will be Lee's only major public address during his present two-month sabbatical at Harvard. He analyzed the problems South Asia has encountered as it has emerged from colonialism...