Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue had caught fire. Kennedy's own switchboard was alight with calls from all over the country, many from older people with fixed incomes who wanted to praise his stand against higher energy costs. The White House was bombarded, too, with most of the calls positive. One person wanted to tell the President he sounded exactly like Harry Truman...
...Rhodesia. You have got to go from where you are now: there is an internal settlement. There was an election, one person-one vote for four different parties. Where else would you get that in Africa? The problem isn't between whether you should have a white or black government, it's who shall be the black government. The whole illegality of Rhodesia was because they had not observed the six principles.* If those six principles are observed, there's no reason to retain the illegality, no reason to have the sanctions at all. So the Anglo...
Thus the problems that the individual copes with as a private person are knotty enough; public issues have grown immeasurably more complex. Government has long since subsumed science and technology into its realm, both as the fountainhead of its projects and as an object of its regulation. The calculations that measure national military strength are as impenetrable to the civilian-on-the-street as the formulas of the ancient alchemists. The surreal arithmetic of SALT might as well be the music of the spheres, for all the help it gives ordinary folks trying to get a clear picture...
...attack; in West Memphis, Ark. Influential on agricultural committees, Gathings made headlines in 1952 when he did an impromptu hootchy-kootchy before a House committee to illustrate the lewdness of TV. Opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he insisted that "the Negro in the South is a happy person. He understands the members of the white race, and they understand...
Johnson was one person who spoke at a meeting sponsored by the MIT Advisory Committee on shareholder Responsibility Thursday night...