Word: outspoken
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...only Economics Minister Thanh made good his resignation. Labor Minister Nguyen Huu Hung agreed to accompany Ky to Manila. And who remained behind to take charge of the government when Ky flew off to Manila at week's end? Deputy Premier Nguyen Luu Vien, one of the most outspoken of the Southern side...
...first duly impressed, and then later deeply grateful for control of the army at the very moment he wished to risk a major purge. Lin's outspoken support of Mao's thought in speeches, articles, and private Party discussions apparently convinced the Chairman that Lin could be trusted with the country. Still, to insure an easy succession, Mao and Lin had to eliminate all possible opposition to Lin's rise...
...Republican in 1928, vowed on becoming Governor that he would follow the illustrious example of Earl Warren and Hiram Johnson, Republicans both. Actor George Murphy, once a New Deal Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 1964. And Ronnie Reagan was once an outspoken Roosevelt-Truman Democrat and A.D.A. activist. As president of the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild, he could not believe that he was being gulled by Communist officials, as he admits today, and himself earned a reputation as a fellow traveler. During California's savage 1950 Senate election fight between liberal Democrat Helen...
...disgruntled seniors not admitted to Social Sciences 139, Erikson's course on the Human Life Cycle. This has provoked me, usually not an outspoken student, to complaint. It is all right to limit a course by class or prerequisites, as long as all qualified people who want to take it are admitted. But it is a huge absurdity that a university of the size and affluence of Harvard must limit a course like Soc Sci 139 because of lack of staff, room, and money. Students can be rejected only arbitrarily, and the injustice of this is not merely institutional...
Died. Paul Reynaud, 87, Premier of France during the 1940 debacle; of complications following abdominal surgery; in Neuilly, France. Sometimes brilliant, always outspoken, Reynaud was one of history's political unfortunates. Through the 1930s, he and other moderate conservatives warned in vain about the growing Nazi threat; when he finally came to power in the spring of 1940, it was too late for anything except to preside over the fall of France -which is how Frenchmen remember him, though they might also note that he started Charles de Gaulle on his way with an appointment in 1940 as Under...