Word: retreating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...endorsement from the California Republican Assembly despite a Rockefeller attempt to block it. Actually the C.R.A. is a dwindling power in state politics, and its boost gave Goldwater little more than a psychological victory. But Barry made the most of it. After a surprise visit to the winter retreat of Dwight Eisenhower in Palm Desert. Barry reported that Ike said "he does not think it wise for Republicans to fight Republicans," and implied that this was a criticism of Nelson Rockefeller. At a fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles, Goldwater fired a volume of metaphors at President Johnson...
Perhaps the most compelling reason for Gordon's retreat was an implicit U.S. threat to retaliate. Had the 20% tax taken effect, the U.S. was prepared to raise its tax on the repatriated dividends of Canadian-owned subsidiaries operating in the U.S. to a prohibitive 30%. That would have crimped many far-reaching Canadian companies-including Moore Corp. (business forms), Clairtone Sound Corp. (hifi equipment), Hiram Walker and Seagrams-and might have forced some of them to move their headquarters...
Cursillo candidates are screened to exclude neurotics, include a cross section of active Catholic laymen, usually between 25 and 50 in age, with leadership potential. Separate Cursillos are held for women, but wives are not eligible unless their husbands have taken the little course. Unlike the retreat, which emphasizes individual meditation and passive attention to sermons, the Cursillo requires active, cooperative participation by all candidates. Thus each course includes one or two "auxiliaries" -veteran Cursillistas who pretend to be there for the first time. They keep discussions going, alert the rector and priest if someone is not entering into...
...next. We do so by the stories we select, the details we emphasize, the speculation we report, the directions in which we point, as well as by outright forecast. Everyone on our staff recalls his own favorite prediction, be it the precise forecast of the end of the American retreat in Korea, or Ike's nomination in 1952, or the uneasy suggestion that the overthrow of Diem's regime in South Viet Nam would only lead to other coups...
...CUBA. "There will be no retreat from our policy toward the Castro regime in Cuba as long as it continues to threaten the. security and stability of other nations in this hemisphere. Moreover, we regard this regime as temporary...