Word: mends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with 36 personal phone calls. The next quorum call, two days later, was met. But still absent were nine of Humphrey's Democratic supporters and six pro-civil rights Republicans. With that, Humphrey and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield summoned offending Democrats to a special meeting, urged them to mend their ways and handed out a list of scheduled quorum calls through mid-May. Seven Senators didn't show up for that session either...
News of the riots was at first kept from India's ailing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. A week after his stroke, he looked weak and his left eye seemed strained and unfocused. The Indian government insisted that Nehru was rapidly on the mend, but privately even the most optimistic of his doctors indicated that the 74-year-old Indian leader would be bedridden for at least two months, and after that would be able to work for only a few hours daily...
...freedom. He fumed at what he called their unconquerable tendency to print lies and "sensationalism." His criticism even extended to the character of some of the editors. One, he suggested, was an opium addict; another was playing footsie with the Communists. If the country's press did not mend its ways, concluded Tho, "the government would have to take the necessary measures...
...Epernay's slim volume of essays is a paeon of praise to the imaginative and eccentric Herschel McLandress, former professor of Psychiatric Measurement at the Harvard Medical School, a genius fated, Mr. Epernay tells us, for a position of honor among the scientific and medical immortals. Not content to mend the tattered psyches of Harvard students and tired of serving as pathfinder to 'Cliffies trying to find themselves, Dr. McLandress devoted himself to applying statistical methods to the analysis of political and economic trends...
...Geneva, diplomats argued over how Indo-China should be partitioned. When discussions appeared to be getting nowhere, Mendès-France imposed a deadline after which he threatened to resign-a move that would have brought the conference to a grinding halt and continued a war that could not be won. Prodded by this ultimatum, the conference finally agreed on terms that would partition Viet Nam at the 17th parallel. The agreement gave the Viet Minh the industrial North, leaving the government of Ngo Dinh Diem with the rice-rich South. New military bases were prohibited, and civilians were permitted...