Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marchers left the procession and poured down the country lane marked on the "peace" spies' map. After a scuffle with police, the shouting demonstrators staged a mass squat around the bunker for more than an hour, until one of their leaders announced: "We have achieved our object...
Whatever their real object, the "spies for peace" triggered a full-scale Scotland Yard investigation and brought Prime Minister Harold Macmillan scurrying back from his country home to London for consultation with his Cabinet. Nevertheless, Canon John Collins, C.N.D. chairman and preceptor of St. Paul's Cathedral, simpered on TV that most marchers "treated it rather as a joke." His merriment was not shared by James Cameron, a crusading journalist who has been a prominent figure in C.N.D. since its inception. Cameron conceded sadly that the ban-the-bomb marches had "become a vehicle for too many secondary...
...brings to question the basic reasons or inspiration for the paintings. The people who have so loudly protested the work of the artist were the ones who yelled the "obscenities" or distributed the material inscribed with some of the words on the painting to which the Confederates so greatly object. If anything is distasteful to certain groups within the state, requests have been made for its removal whether this unfavorable object be a person, painting, or written article. Should history and art conform to the wishes of these people simply because they do not approve...
...appropriations to (perhaps) Indonesia will complicate the business of the U.S. Embassy in Djakarta. Somebody ought to point out to the general that the near certainty of his advice being taken will eventually complicate things a good deal more than a public hearing ever could; if his object was to make life easy for the diplomatic corps he should have thought of it long ago. In any case, his and his Committee's refusal to discuss specifics makes it impossible not to sympathize with the one dissenting member, George Meany, who wrote that "the Report's recommendations on future requirements...
Love Is a Ball. This Riviera-based frappé is an object lesson in how times change though plots do not. Hope Lange is a chauffeur-chasing heiress who chases Chauffeur Glenn Ford, lures him to a booby-trapped love nest, and almost nabs him. Charles Boyer runs a school for would-be grooms, where Pupil Ricardo Montalban learns that even the aging Boyer is not yet a Casbah Milquetoast...