Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevertheless, Harvard's Irishmen spent most of their time shaking spectators' hands and acknowledging applause. They sang "10,000 Men of Harvard" for the parade's chief marshal at his reviewing stand and checred Mayor Collins at his receiving stand...
...witnesses, Lyndon Johnson. In the end only five Senators voted against tabling a motion rescinding the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, which had authorized the President to take all necessary action in Southeast Asia. But perhaps two dozen other Senators, while refusing to vote against the Commander in Chief, were nevertheless known to have serious reservations about Administration policy. Almost to a man, the critics were Democrats in an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress. They were thus at odds not only with their party's leader but with a President justly famed for his unsurpassed mastery in handling the Senate...
...Britain, it is possible to govern with a hair-thin majority, but Austria lacks the democratic tradition Britain has," explained Chancellor Josef Klaus, 55, leader of the People's Party. "We are still too weak and the Socialists too strong for us to govern alone." Nevertheless, he intends to use the victory to unknot Austria's badly stalemated governmental processes...
...000th auto of Model Year 1966 rolled off the production lines last week-15 days earlier than last year. It was a solid sign that 1966 will turn out to be the fifth straight year of superlatives for the nation's most influential industry. Nevertheless, the cheers were mixed with a trace of concern in Detroit. The auto manufacturers, who not long ago were freely forecasting that 1966 would set another sales record, are now beginning to think that it may have to take a back seat to 1965, when Americans bought 9,300,000 cars...
Died. Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 76, leading Russian poetess for three generations; after a long illness; in Moscow. Bitterly denounced during a Stalinist purge of 1946 as a decadent "half nun and half prostitute," she nevertheless wrote such finely chiseled, romantic and often mystical verse on love and faith that the Kremlin allowed her to publish again in the '50s and granted her the almost unheard-of privilege of a religious funeral though, as reflected in Requiem (1963), she had never forgiven the harsh Stalin era, when "only dead men smiled, glad to be at rest...