Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cool, controlled advocate during more than ten hours of grilling, Rusk assured the committee that an "A to Z" review of the war was going on within the Administration. That hardly assuaged the committee's fears of a buildup of as many as 200,000 additional men. By week's end, word leaked out that the Administration-perhaps as a partial reaction to the hearing-had ruled out a massive troop increase. One spokesman said that the prospect is more likely to be a moderate buildup in the coming months...
...general indignation generated by ousted Congressman Adam Clayton Powell's propensity for public sin, it suggests that House members conduct themselves "in a manner which shall reflect creditably" on the House, and that a Representative accept no compensation for using his influence improperly. It called for a review of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, under which no one has been convicted since its passage in 1925. It also asked members to list firms in which they own a substantial interest ($5,000 or more) or which produce an income to them of $1,000 or more per year...
Extraordinary Events. As the country's leaders continued to examine their own consciences, some extraordinary events were occurring. The Czechoslovak Supreme Court decided to review all cases heard in the 1950s in a search for those who may have been falsely accused and unjustly convicted. After five days of meetings, reported the newspaper Rude Pravo, party watchdogs in the Foreign Ministry "demanded that the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia have a new face." Strangest of all, the party censors in the Interior Ministry announced that they wanted to go out of business. "We have reached the conclusion," they said, "that...
...program here is to produce white back Americans to live in a white society." vard Educational Review. The article condemned Negro colleges across the board as being "purveyors of super-American, ultra-bourgeois prejudices and aspirations," "academic disaster areas," and "fourth-rate institutions at the tail end of the academic procession...
...changes were proposed by a review committee appointed last Fall by Walter J. Bate '39, chairman of the English Department...