Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simmons Fentress found that most people give Nixon good, if not spectacularly high marks on his first 60 days. At the same time, the President has made almost no headway at all in converting the young and the blacks, who still view him skeptically. Nor has the Administration squarely met any of the problems that dominated the nation in the campaign-crime, disorders, inflation...
...Karachi dockworkers, released the grievances pent up by a decade's prohibition of strikes; on one day last week, 2,500,000 employees walked off their jobs. Some invoked gherao, a tactic borrowed from India in which workers barricade employers in their offices until wage demands are met. Since the government had set the pace by awarding civil servants an $80 million pay raise, it might be some time before the labor unrest could be quelled...
People in the record business actually talk that kind of Stardust and get to believe it. Listen to Ted Brooks, once the live-wire manager of Barbra's music-publishing company, tell how he met Roz: "There was this sweet-faced kid who looked like a bouncing ball. I mean she weighed about 185 Ibs. She was hanging around the stage door at Funny Girl. I asked her if she was a fan and she said, 'No, I'm Barbra's sister.' So I said, 'Why don't you go inside instead...
Frankenthaler and Greenberg split up in 1955, and for a couple of years after that she turned out confused and not very satisfactory pictures. Then in 1957 she met Robert Motherwell, and they were married the following April...
...Christianity: as a step toward ultimate church reunion, he said, mainstream American Protestants must unite. At the time, Blake optimistically predicted that the project would need ten years to bear any fruit at all; pessimists seemed to think it was impossible. Last week, as the Consultation on Church Union met for the eighth time in Atlanta to carry forward Blake's pioneering proposal, it appeared that the participants were willing to accept an old military maxim: the impossible takes a little longer...