Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stuart Hughes, professor of History, Kennedy is a man whom he could vote for "only with fear and trembling," due to the Senator's narrow views on foreign policy. But to William Proxmire, Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, Kennedy is a man who will "move swiftly, hit hard, and be loved, as no one has been loved since Roosevelt in the early days of his administration...
Like giant locusts, the helicopters settled on the peaks of the Aurès Mountains, unloaded their cargo of French paratroopers. In the narrow valleys below, French infantry sweated and scrambled their way up the rocky slopes. Trapped between land and air, units of the rebel F.L.N. fought to the death or fled into the surrounding oak and pine forests. A French communiqué tersely announced that 300 rebels were slain...
...evoke the burst of national spirit we shall require"). ¶ LIFE endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Domestically, LIFE praised Nixon as the one more apt to "maintain and advance the American Free Enterprise system." Weighing the candidates on foreign policy, LIFE found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded: "With Nixon and Lodge in charge of U.S. world policy we shall feel both safer and more hopeful." ¶ Another magazine for Nixon: Farm Journal; for Kennedy, Harper's. ¶The residents of rival Crackertown (pop. 463) and Yankeetown...
...long dinner, Adenauer was sufficiently mollified, but his toast was a pointed answer to De Gaulle: "One must rise above national egoisms. The German people are convinced that they have started, with the French nation, on a way that will allow them to get away from narrow nationalism. Europe can survive only if it is incorporated in a vaster community, the Atlantic community." Debre replied soothingly: "It is important that the French should have the feeling that there is no peace, no freedom, no future, if France and Germany do not defend the same cause...
...ancient city of Fez last week narrow alleys blazed with Morocco's red and green colors and the air was heavy with incense and the odor of kif (marijuana). From jampacked rooftops thousands of spectators roared "Marhaba!" (welcome). Amid the cheers, Morocco's King Mohammed V, followed by scholars from 39 nations, walked a cobblestoned mile to the huge Karaouine mosque to celebrate a momentous occasion: the 1,100th anniversary of Fez's Karaouine University. This Moslem school is older than any university in Europe...