Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both sides that had marked last month's anti-Dean Rusk dustup at the New York Hilton was notably absent. Frustrated by competent cops, who refused to club them into martyrdom, the dissenters finally began to dissent among themselves. Even the presence of Lyndon Johnson at St. Patrick's Cathedral for Cardinal Spellman's funeral failed to unite them: protesters halfheartedly staked out the midtown cathedral, but soon dispersed. At Battery Park, moderates and militants clashed in a shoving match during a violent argument over whether to march on city hall...
...most majestic program of the week, the networks moved their cameras to New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral for the funeral of Cardinal Spellman (see RELIGION). And strangely, with religious leaders from half the world parading, live coverage was restricted to local stations...
During the five days that Spellman's body lay in state in St. Patrick's Cathedral, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers filed past the catafalque in tribute. For the funeral service, the cathedral was jammed to capacity. Both President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey were on hand, making one of their rare joint public appearances...
...American political system--increasingly beset with violence--is approaching a crisis, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, said last night...
...Died. Patrick Kavanagh, 62, Irish poet; of pneumonia; in Dublin. Better known for his acid tongue than for his lyric poetry, Kavanagh found modern poetry "pretentious," Emerson "a sugary humbug," Yeats "You can have him." Yet Ireland knew him as one of its strongest talents for such works as "The Great Hunger...