Word: requestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last hope for another delay in the construction was wiped out last week when it became apparent that the outgoing federal highway administrator, Lowell K. Bridwell, would not move to have more hearings on the plans. It will be up to the new administration to act on a request to have a second set of public hearings on the highway...
...Premier Eisaku Sato might be in order, if only to give Sato a stronger hand in calming the anti-U.S. protesters. Last summer, after the Itazuke crash, both Japanese and U.S. officials began drawing up a list of facilities that might be given up. When a formal Japanese request for a scaling-down of the American presence arrived, the Americans were ready for discussions. The result: last week the U.S. announced that 50 military areas would be returned, relocated or shared with Japan's forces...
Clifford took office in the wake of the Communists' Tet offensive, and his first job included evaluating a request from the generals for 200,000 more troops. For two weeks, he examined all the angles with the same care that had made him one of Washington's most successful lawyers. Finally, he decided that a further buildup was madness. A subsequent trip to Saigon confirmed his suspicion that South Viet Nam's government wanted no part of a peace that would oblige them to risk political concessions and curtail the comforts of U.S. military protection and cash...
...possible, both the wedding and the tea-dance reception in the Grand Ballroom of The Plaza will be closed to the press. At The Plaza, Bill Harrington's orchestra will tootle Edelweiss, The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha, The Blue Danube and, at David's request, some rock 'n' roll in arrangements gentled for guests over...
...Guards deliver the People's Daily even though Grey cannot read Chinese. He grows weary of the Peking Review, an English-language Maoist propaganda magazine. He has a library in his upstairs quarters, but is not allowed to go there; if he wants a book, he must request it by exact title, word for word. He is tormented by the fact that he has forgotten the names of most of his books...