Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learn that a distinguished group of Washington eggheads in the mental-health ward says that I must not feel "hostile" if my child is "queered" by one of our nation's 12 million homos...
LORENZ HART was a superb lyricist, but he had his failings as a reporter. Hate California? Cold and damp? Just tell that to the citizens of the nation's most populous and most fascinating state, glowing with sunlight, blessed by beauty, rich beyond counting. In its cover story this week, TIME examines its people-who they are, what they seek, how California affects the U.S., present and future...
...With all deliberate speed" was the famous phrase used in the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, commanding integration of the nation's public schools. The response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy and Border States are still classified as segregated. Now the Supreme Court has run out of patience. Last week in Holmes v. Alexander-the first major judgment since Chief Justice Warren Burger joined the bench-the court unanimously ruled that the deliberate-speed formula "is no longer constitutionally permissible...
...drew a fine line between those who led the Moratorium and those who merely participated in it, he brutally castigated politicians who supported M-day. Said he: "They are ideological eunuchs whose most comfortable position is straddling the ideological fence." With this indiscriminate indictment. Agnew condemned many of the nation's leading political figures, including several in the Republican Party...
Those who saw hints of a "new Nixon" in the President's past statements on foreign affairs have now had their hopes laid to rest. The man who spoke so the nation three nights ago was firmly a product of the 1950's. In President Nixon's eyes, we are still the defenders of "peace and freedom" abroad. We are still scrambling from firefight to firefight in a righteous struggle against those "great powers who have not yet abandoned their roles of world conquest." The Communist Monolith rides again, and the dominoes clink and totter on all sides; in Thailand...