Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a whole list of groups, all of which are associated with the Communist party, and they ask have you ever been a Communist or even known one, and I haven't--and for a long time they took away my application for officers' candidate school. They made me read all of those pro-Vietnam books telling about the atrocities the Viet Cong are committing on Americans. I remember especially a gory book written by a colonel in the army, called Why Vietnam...
...editorial policy of the Forward Times, a weekly paper of the Negro community, is any measure of the reaction of non-activist Negroes, Jones is probably right. "The young people are impressionable, emotional, crave excitement, and enjoy opportunities to rebel against authority," a recent Forward Times editorial read. "Characters like F. D. Kirkpatrick and Lee Otis Johnson [another demonstration leader] should be ridden out of town on a log with their hands and feet securely tied," it added...
...been names of all those signing the petition of demands." The students, however, wanted to hear what T.S.U. acting president J. B. Pierce intended to do about the charges he had filed against Kirkpatrick, Alexander, and Johnson. Pierce, when he spoke to the crowd, was non-committal. First, he read a prepared statement, saying the administration wished to "carry on a dialogue with the students." Then asked whether he would drop the charges, Pierce said, "I'm not a lawyer, I don't know the law.... I don't know what's going to happen," and walked off the stage...
...Sympathy. Once segregated from the rest of the paper and ignored by male journalists, today's women's page is often read by as many men as women. Under the spirited direction of Charlotte Curtis, the New York Times's page often focuses on men: their travail when they go shopping with their wives, their attempts to get closer to their kids by familiarizing them with office life. Women's golf, once confined to the sports page of the Houston Post, now appears on the women's page in a column titled "Tee and Sympathy...
...Queen Elizabeth steamed toward New York harbor last week with 711 passengers (capacity: 2,304), a message over the ship's radio instructed Captain Joseph E. Woolfenden to open a sealed envelope he had received before sailing from Southampton. Woolfenden was stunned by what he read. At that moment, the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. was announcing in London that the world's two largest ocean liners would be retired-the Queen Elizabeth within 18 months, the older Queen Mary as early as next October...