Word: minored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtually all the disarmament agreements. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. have treated the consultations with increasing respect, while France-originally the 18th member-has never taken its seat, choosing instead to flex its nuclear muscle in the Sahara. Red China has declared the committee anathema. HOT LINE, 1963. A minor deterrent, the installation of a direct telecircuit between the White House and the Kremlin, was worked out by Kennedy and Khrushchev...
Though his stature as a jurist hardly matches that of such colleagues on the Circuit Court as Albert Parr Tuttle and John Minor Wisdom, Thornberry took generally progressive stands on civil rights and free-speech cases. In 1966, he wrote the decision that struck down Texas' poll tax. Last year he sided with an 8-to-4 majority that ordered Southern schools to speed school desegregation. This year he overturned a local Louisiana ordinance restricting picketing with the words: "In an open society there must be the ability to advocate views in the hope of changing existing preconceptions...
...many individual scenes to the limit-and still give them the tensile strength of drop-forged steel. Nor has he the almost Proustian ability to recapture the past in a skein of memories and desires. In its avoidance of a major theme, The Bride Wore Black opts for the minor genre of suspense; but within those bounds it is very nearly a masterpiece...
...added $83.25 in 1968). Corporations, liable for the increase as of last Jan. 1, will pay the full additional 10% in taxes. Though the surcharge is supposed to run to next June 30, nobody would be surprised if it were prolonged. In return for the surcharge and some relatively minor revenue measures-which together will yield an estimated $15 billion in the next year-the Administration reluctantly accepted a mandatory $6 billion spending cut by agreeing to a $180.1 billion limit on federal outlays in the new fiscal year...
...deal will net the Communist regime some $250,000 a year in hard-currency marks. They have guaranteed piping-hot delivery in specially built thermos trucks and announced that the first batch of fresh Brötchen, due in September, will arrive from heaven via helicopter to celebrate this minor leavening in East-West relations...