Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...searched in vain for a reply and finally asked what "Macrobiotic" meant...
...said Ervin, but the state or county "has to hitchhike a thousand miles to get here." What he meant was that the bill provides that a three-judge court in the District of Columbia is the only one allowed to adjudicate such matters; the provision was written into the bill to keep voting issues out of the hands of segregationist Southern judges. Said Ervin: "This seals shut the door of every courthouse except that in the District of Columbia." He also pointed out that the rules of the D.C. district court allow witnesses to be subpoenaed only from within...
...address, a packet of PT-boat tie clasps, similar to the ones that the late President used to give visitors and voters. He also planted the Kennedy family flag-a shield showing three gold helmets on a black background, topped with a hand holding four gold-tipped arrows. Bobby meant to leave the flag there, but his colleagues warned him that the winds and snows would destroy it within 48 hours. He removed it, furled it and brought it back home...
...East-that run counter to their own policies. The U.S. threatened to invoke Article 19 to deprive the delinquents of their vote, but the majority feared that in such a showdown, Russia would walk out and wreck the organization; thus the small nations insisted on preventing a showdown-which meant no open voting. In the end, the U.S. backed away from its tough stand and allowed the Assembly to adjourn without forcing the issue...
...within seven years, said Brezhnev, it had in fact actually risen only 10% in the past six. The solution he proposed, spread across Pravda and the delayed edition of Izvestia, was "to do away resolutely with subjectivism in the practical management of socialist agriculture"-Red gibberish which Brezhnev suggested meant a more rational use of "economic incentives" and "greater independence" along the lines the Soviets are already applying in industry (TIME cover, Feb. 12). Also planned: a massive infusion of new capital into the farm sector to the tune of some $80 billion over the next five years-double...