Word: objections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fred L. Whipple, Director of the observatory, was the first to recognize that the object is a member of a family of comets whose orbits pass quite near the sun, where they develop long tails and become extremely bright...
...resolution caused something of a furor in both the U.S. and Latin America, but the fuss did not obscure its clear warning to Russia and China. Its object, said Alabama Democrat Armistead Selden, the resolution's sponsor and the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, was "to make it clear to Communists that they cannot count on the principle of nonintervention to shield their takeover of a hemisphere country." Added he: "It is a pretty good mandate about how the people of this country really feel...
...article has just appeared in the first issue of the Bay State Banner, Boston's new Negro newspaper, and is reprinted here with its permission. Jonathan Kozal '58 was graduated summa cum laude, held a Rhodes Scholarship, and is author of the novel Fume of Poppies. He was the object of nation-wide attention last spring when he was fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad...
Oddly enough, the President's almost unprecedented success with Congress deeply disturbs some observers. Republicans naturally echo House Minority Leader Gerald Ford's complaint that it has been "a weak, wet noodle" in Johnson's hands. Some independent critics object that important legislation has been rammed through almost without debate-though only a few years ago, when Congress was chronically deadlocked over vital bills, reformers argued that its machinery had become an unworkable anachronism...
...same line was coming from Rawalpindi in slightly different wording. Pakistan's object was not to wage war either. Its only task was to convince India by "firmness" that it would be a good idea to let the Kashmiris have their plebiscite...