Word: obstructione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prophet Without Honor. To many of his critics, France's towering, turbulent leader seems, as H. G. Wells once said, to be "an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Catholic Novelist François Mauriac wrote with greater insight: "He appears as though delegated by historic France to living France, in order...
The President's desires have, however, been snagged by Henry Wads-worth Longfellow himself. The Soldiers Field site was given to the University by Longfellow under a deed which limits its use strictly to "meadows or College buildings" and specifies that any building constructed must not provide an obstruction to...
Quenched Oratory. Then the President poured it on the Republicans. "In January of 1961 a government of veto and obstruction and do-nothingism was thrown out of office, and a government here in this state of West Virginia, under your Governor, and a government in Washington committed to progress began...
Everyone in Ottawa's House of Com mons knew roughly what to expect when the Prime Minister rose for his announcement. Elected in 1958 with the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian his tory, Diefenbaker still had eleven months to go in his five-year term, though it is never...
Last week Brazil's mercurial ex-President Jânio Quadros was homeward bound, by the slowest possible means. In Hong Kong he boarded a freighter that is not scheduled to reach Rio de Janeiro until March 9. Already, however, Brazilians were getting that old familiar feeling-"Here Comes...