Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a moving but cautionary M-day speech on the New Haven green, Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr.?who joined Mayor Richard Lee in offering a five-point disengagement plan two weeks ago?warned of another danger to America: "Let us admit that the retreat of our power in...
Deep Shock. Strictly speaking, it may be premature to use the word defeat. Still, no matter how the war ends, it is bound to entail some degree?perhaps a high degree?of American loss. What Brewster calls "this wound" will probably provoke deep shock among those many Americans who have...
Down Commonwealth Avenue a crowd of 100,000 converged on the Boston Common. They were mostly students, but mothers from Newton and Wellesley walked among them, their children wearing black M-day armbands or clutching helium-filled black balloons. From a bar, a man hollered: "Bums! Do they think of...
She is a Democrat of center-stripe conviction, a Roman Catholic, a young (31) suburban (Evanston, Ill.) mother of two and wife of a vice president at the First National Bank of Chicago. Her joiner's urge has been satisfied by participation in the 4-H Club. When she...
About 100 people had shown up for the observance, including teachers, students, nuns and visitors like Pat Wall. They listened intently as Sister Ann Ida Gannon, the school's president, greeted them: "This day will be a failure if most of you let it stop at 4 or 5...