Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many newspapers bitterly branded the bill as a betrayal; the Sunday Times caricatured a bloated Home Secretary James Callaghan under a sign: "I'm not blacking Britain." Demonstrators marched with petitions to 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. And the Archbishop of Canterbury, among others, joined a futile mini-filibuster during the House of Lords' longest sitting (19 hours, 16 minutes) of the century...
...withstand its assaults, America never stands taller than when her people get to their knees." Then he added: "I can, and I do, tell you that in these long nights your President prays." Thanks to Johnson's restrained approach, what might have been at least a mini-crisis-the collision of the U.S. destroyer Rowan and a Russian merchantman in the Sea of Japan, 95 miles off South Korea-was treated as if it were a two-car collision on Route 66 and stirred little concern...
...President!" Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, was on his feet, demanding the floor. For a speech on Viet Nam? A ringing call for action to avenge the seizure of Pueblo? Nothing of the kind. Stennis was merely taking his turn in a lackluster mini-filibuster that has almost totally preoccupied the U.S. Senate since it reconvened three weeks...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite hosts "New Weapons Against Crime" and discusses gadgets being dreamed up to assist the police, such as voice "prints," electronic sensors, computers and mini-listening devices...
...recession-proof" and might not have to merge in order to prosper. Saunders paid calls on Central directors, pointed out that their line, unlike the Pennsy, was not widely diversified; he warned that a dip in the general economy would cause the Central painful headaches. Last year's mini-recession proved Saunders right. Rail returns for the less diversified Central during the nine months figured so far showed a $2,640,000 deficit, while Pennsy earnings held up substantially better. Suddenly the Central's merger enthusiasm revived...