Word: minn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, hard fight, something of the hope that stiffens Johnson against his critics was lucidly expressed by White House Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow. Speaking at the University of Leeds in England, Rostow said that the "aggressive, romantic revolutionaries" who long have disturbed world peace-Ho Chi Minn and Mao Tse-tung, to name two-must soon give way to leaders who will make a new era of tranquillity possible. "If we have the common will to hold together and get on with the job," he predicted, "the struggle in Viet Nam might be the last great confrontation...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council has elected the following officers for the coming year: Daniel B. Magraw Jr. '68 of Winthrop House and St. Paul, Minn., president; Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68 of Kirkland House and Piedmont, Calif., vice-president; and John D. Kelly '68 of Ediot House and Crookston, Minn., secretary-treasurer...
...back to the elysium of such hamlets as Gia Hoi or Hoai Chau. So narrow and parochial is their vision that most do not know the name of their province chief or the mayor of the adjoining city. At their hesitant best, the peasants can identify only Ho Chi Minn and the late Ngo Dinh Diem. Few know why the French came and where or why they have gone. Some do not even know that Viet Nam has been divided into a North and South; others have heard of Saigon but have no idea where...
...credentials of the only other politician ever to deliver the Lectures are somewhat less obvious. Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.), the 1966 Noble Lecturer, is certainly no evangelist. But if he was unable to convince large number of students to take up the ministry, he did succeed in winning a great many new supporters...
...steady snow was falling on Lake Huron as the 603-ft. freighter Daniel J. Morrell steamed toward Taconite, Minn., for a load of iron ore, but the night was otherwise tranquil. Watchman Dennis Hale, 26, ended his tour of duty, had a snack in the galley and headed for his bunk. Six hours later, he was awakened by "two loud thumps," followed by the insistent clang of the emergency bell. Clad only in underwear and peacoat (he couldn't find his trousers), Hale sped topside-and gasped at what he saw. Lashed by a sudden, severe Great Lakes storm...