Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps Eugene McCarthy. The big question is still whether McCarthy would accept. "It's highly unlikely," said one McCarthy aide. "Gene conceivably could take No. 2 to save the country-but to save Hubert Humphrey?" Several members of McCarthy's staff would probably resign in disgust if the Senator joined the H.H.H. ticket; the reaction of his youthful followers would be apoplectic...
Modern Bush War. From the beginning, there was no question among Ibos as to who must lead them. Ojukwu, besides his gifts of intellect and training, was the federal Nigerian governor of the Eastern Region and thus held the key to all its resources. True to his profound belief in Nigerian unity, Ojukwu first argued against outright secession and urged Easterners to settle for a radical loosening of ties with the rest of Nigeria. The ruthless slaughter by the North, he pleaded, was "the final act of sacrifice that Easterners would be called upon to make in the interest...
...question of who sat where, Prince Alfonso de Borbon y Dampierre came out ahead of Dr. Christiaan Bar nard for the seat of honor at the right hand of Princess Grace of Monaco...
...major address in Bogota, Pope Paul is expected to urge the church to support moderate economic and political reforms, in the spirit of his social encyclical Populorum Progressio. The unanswered question is whether that sound and humane advice will be too late in coming. Latin America's reactionary clerics, who enthusiastically endorsed his decree on birth control, are not likely to change their ways overnight. Nor are the rebel Catholics, who are already committed to support of violence as man's only hope. To some observers, Latin American Catholicism is heading toward something very like a schism-based...
...provocative visitor so far -judging by the number of callers totted up by the phone company - was Stokely Carmichael, who was dialed by 64,440 Americans. In customary form, Carmichael told one listener who wondered about the impact of nonviolence on whites, "You should ask Martin Luther King that question." A white guest who stirred a big switchboard jam was New York's Mayor John Lindsay. Quizzed on the war in Viet Nam, Lindsay replied that it was "unproductive, unwanted, endless, bottomless, sideless, and its cost is unquestionably affecting the problems in our cities." Another night, White Radical Saul...