Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Common Market for a second time. Four years ago the Tories applied, and were rudely vetoed by Charles de Gaulle after nine months of nit-picking negotiations in Brussels over such items as East Indian tanned hides and Australian kangaroo meat. In his speech to Parliament, Wilson made it plain that this time Britain's approach to Europe would be far different - and far more to the point...
...production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which opened at the Loeb last night is a crude attempt at a play unequaled in ripeness of language and plain good heart in Shakespeare or English. The show is as disasterous as misdirection can make it, which is to say that it is still a fair evening's entertainment...
...dwindling SNCC staff of the past year has substituted talk for tactic. They have been polemical when plain discussion was called for. Since last May, SNCC's purpose and energies have not singled out any self-sustaining, meaningful activity. It has no program tailored to long range purposes, and even in Atlanta SNCC has neither catalyzed nor offered viable community leadership. SNCC lacks a broad community base and visible, tangible results, the major tests of effectiveness, have been noticeably absent...
...need for reform in campaign financing is plain enough. Any serious candidate for state or local office these days must mount a television campaign, and that is an extraordinarily expensive undertaking. As a result, personal wealth--or wealthy friends--is more and more becoming a prerequisite for office. The danger that big money can choose the candidates increases yearly...
...plain that any attempt to cope seriously with the problems of campaign funding must aim at financing of state and local races. But there are tricky constitutional questions involved. The conduct of such campaigns comes clearly under the jurisdiction of state legislatures, and any attempt to offer federal aid from tax revenues might be ruled unconstitutional. President Johnson has appointed a blue-ribbon committee, headed by Richard E. Neustadt, to study the entire question of election reforms. Neustadt's report, which has been mysteriously withheld by the President, may clarify this issue and offer some alternatives to the muddled Long...