Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meetings so shook the Negro civil rights movement that Dr. Martin Luther King, the best known and most popular of the rights leaders, felt obliged to warn that the movement is "very, very close" to a permanent split over the issue of black power, urged civil rights leaders to patch up their differences before it is too late...
...were more or less back to normal service, but the biggest of the European carriers, British European Airways, which carries more passengers than any other airline outside the U.S., was in continuing turbulence. Sir Anthony Milward, chairman of the state-owned BEA, passed the trouble off as a "bad patch" of flying; passengers characterized it as a chronic inability to get off the ground in proper flying time...
During the past decade, Harvard has cautiously ventured into the world of City government. It has done so largely through one man, Charles P. Whitlock. As assistant to the President for civic affairs, Whitlock has been Harvard's link to the City's patch-work politics. He attends meetings of the City Council and of many civic and neighborhood organizations. On almost all matters that involve Harvard and the City, he represents the University. But, more importantly, he has carefully cultivated the friendships of political and civic leaders...
...beginnings of success can be seen. But the odd thing is that they are more visible outside the U.S. than in. Surely, without a growing conviction that the U.S. is winning in Viet Nam, Indonesia would never have felt secure enough to ignore Red China, patch up its quarrel with Malaysia, and move-as it was moving last week-toward a broad anti-Communist Asian union with Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Something of the same confidence in what the U.S. is achieving in Viet Nam is plainly needed at home...
...battle of Julies: Andrews (for Sound of Music) and Christie (for Darling) -and Christie won it. For their performances in supporting roles, Martin Balsam got an Oscar for A Thousand Clowns, and Shelley Winters got her second (her first, in 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank) for A Patch of Blue. The only other notable awards went to Czechoslovakia's The Shop on Main Street (best foreign-language film) and To Be Alive, the Johnson's Wax film first shown at the New York World's Fair (best short documentary). Bob Hope, rewarded with a gold medal...