Word: newe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington headquarters of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, which is helping to sponsor the renewed demonstrations this week, the response to Nixon's speech was: "We told you so." Said John C. Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary and a protest leader: "President Nixon gave us nothing...
There is still a danger that this week's march may be stained with blood, although the New Mobe promises to have 1,500 of its own marshals to keep the proceedings orderly. There will also be plenty of Washington police, practiced in riot-handling tactics, on hand. The Justice Department, concerned about the prospsct of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators parading by the White House gate, refused the marchers a permit to march down Pennsylvania Avenue. The department's negotiator, John W. Dean III, explained that there was "a substantial likelihood of serious violence." That refusal...
...new-found fame by association with the American Vice President has also brought some disappointment. Andreas, who owns the town's hardware store, was invited to attend the National Hardware Show in New York City. It was an exciting prospect, but once the all-expenses-paid invitation was offered, there was suddenly no further word from any of his prospective hosts in America...
...odds or against long-prevailing winds. There was thus a special savor to the celebrations of many of the winners in last week's spate of off-year elections across the nation. Like the city's Mets, John Lindsay came from ignominy to take the mayoralty of New York, and did it without the endorsement of either major party. In Virginia, moderate Republican Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation's first black mayor of a major city, had the aid of white votes...
...also a good day for Richard Nixon, who had personally campaigned for Holton in Virginia and for William Cahill, the gubernatorial winner in New Jersey. Both men won bigger than expected, and the G.O.P. will control 32 of the 50 Governors' mansions, an arithmetic not duplicated since the first Eisenhower landslide. The outcome on the principal sites of combat...