Word: outspoken
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Harrington, whose father was mayor of Salem, is an outspoken maverick whose independence is equaled by his ambition. Before the election was won, he was already talking of his next target: taking on the popular Ed Brooke for Senator...
Pyotor L. Kapitza. a noted Soviet physicist and outspoken critic of political orthodoxy, has begun a three-day visit to Harvard. He will deliver a lecture on "The Education of Scientists in the Soviet Union" at 4:45 p.m. today at the Loeb...
...with students boycotting classes to hold mass teach-ins, distribute antiwar leaflets in neighborhoods, turn in their draft cards. One peace leader, Dr. Benjamin Spock, dismissed the troop-withdrawals as "frauds, sops to the American people and attempts to deceive us." It was standard protest rhetoric, but the outspoken Spock touched a deep worry in the Administration when he declared that "the peace movement helped oust Johnson -now a new President must be taught again...
...message to Nixon was clear. If Stennis stayed home, leadership for the military-appropriations bill would fall to Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington -an outspoken military critic. According to Overby, the Administration then ordered a delay of Mississippi school integration-and Stennis returned to shepherd the appropriations bill through. At week's end, neither Stennis nor the Administration had denied the report...
Gradual Decline. For all the behind-the-scenes activity, many delegates voiced growing impatience with the U.N.'s impotence in the face of international crises. Some of the bluntest words came from the General Assembly's new President, outspoken Angie Brooks of Liberia (see box). Last year's General Assembly, she said in her acceptance speech, was "the opposite of dynamism." Delegates had "ignored or sidetracked" important world problems, she charged, thus accelerating "the gradual decline of the U.N. in the eyes of the public...