Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson: "The action of the Senate, a body I revere and to which I devoted a dozen years of my life, is historically and constitutionally tragic." Johnson was referring to the fact that the Senate had never actually voted on the merits of the nomination, only on the procedural question of giving it formal consideration. All but forgotten was another loser in the affair: Homer Thornberry, who was to have replaced Fortas as an Associate Justice on the court. Since Fortas will now keep his own seat, there is now no room for Thornberry; his nomination lies in a legal...
Belaúnde's fall once again raised the question of whether democracy can flourish in Latin America. Its prospects had seldom seemed more promising than when Belaúnde took over the presidency in 1963. He plunged into his tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres...
...hate animosity myself, but if someone wants to keep up a silent thing, that's all right with me," sniffed Raquel Welch. Said fullback turned actor Jim Brown: "If you are star No. 1, there is no question of having to get along with people." In Spain filming 100 Rifles, a sex-and-violence western, the two stars were not even speaking to each other. "There was a real chemical thing going at first," recalls Raquel. But after a torrid love scene, the chemistry stopped. Brown refuses to discuss the matter. Says Raquel: "I don t know what happened...
...Saved!" shouted Joan Kennedy at the press conference. "I have a feeling I came at the right time," said Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who turned up at just the proper moment to rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier land campaigning for Bayh's reelection, reminding her audiences that it was he who had risked his life to pull her husband Teddy out of the wreckage in that near-fatal light-plane crash near Springfield, Mass., tour years ago. At one rally she let her listeners...
...remarks, I took pains to praise the S.D.S. for their concern and to applaud the general interest and activity of undergraduates in political and social reform. It was during my remarks concerning the very small number of the far-Left at Harvard that I made the statement in question...