Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally, Johnson would erupt, recalling the "whirlwind President" of 1964. His popularity rating spurted when he met with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin at the Glassboro summit and impressed him as a man to be reckoned with. Johnson ended one of the long silent spells with his now-famous "new look" press conference, during which he prowled a makeshift stage in the East Room of the White House like a restless tiger, exuding confidence and control. Before an A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in December, he lit into the Republican "wooden soldiers of the status quo" who were poleaxing his programs in Congress...
Throughout urban America the scene was the same: a rising rate of increasingly violent and audacious crimes-met by a strong public outcry that something must be done. The call was to fight force with force-more police, more guns. Very often the crimes and the counterforce involved Negroes and ghetto neighborhoods, just the places where extremists have been making increasingly militant demands and threats...
...says an officer loyal to the junta, "because his father was a schoolteacher." Papadopoulos & Co. are suspicious of intrigues in the big city, jealous of the rich and resentful of the favors that the Palace passed out to highly placed officers. In the past, any incursion on royal prerogatives met with kingly counterattacks; in recent years two Premiers-Constantine Karamanlis and George Papandreou-lost their jobs for suggesting far less drastic limitations. This time Constantine had little choice but to accept a diminished status for the Palace. "Let us be perfectly realistic," he said in his first public statement since...
Perhaps it is because Mr. Warmth, as Carson calls him, claims he has "a sixth sense" about the fine line between good-natured ribbing and offensive ridicule. Besides, who can get angry with a guy who says: "I've never met a man I didn't dislike...
Window for Complaints. The first results are now ready for viewing, and to celebrate the event, two-time Mayor John Collins (whose term expires Jan. 1) threw a housewarming for 1,500. City Hall is still five months from completion; yet Mayor Collins met with little dissent from local citizens when he boasted: "The verdict has already been rendered by all the architects who have seen it. This is the most exciting public building to be constructed in this country in this century...