Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, by Kenneth Rexroth. With a cast of 1,000 people least likely to get into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded biography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain...
...dissent was far from a revolt against Johnson and was much milder than some of the Senate's historic uprisings against the White House. It was a challenge nonetheless, and a reassertion of the Senate's constitutional mandate to give "advice and consent" to all treaties and, by projection, to all U.S. foreign policies. Irritating as it may seem in times of crisis, the founding fathers intended that the Senate should act in just this way-as a chamber of deliberate counsel, second thoughts and extended debate, a guardian against rashness on the part either of the popularly...
...Corps command and expelled him from the Directory. Afterward, they blandly announced that they "had considered and accepted General Thi's application for a vacation." At week's end, though Buddhists demonstrated in Hue and Danang, the ousted soldier had failed to rouse a successful revolt in protest. "This may go down in history," said one U.S. wag in the capital, "as the Saigon Thi Party, because they got away with dumping...
...speech was coincidental with popular anti-Communist risings in Poland and Hungary. Nations that had been captured and coerced by the Red Army after World War II suddenly found a modicum of courage-though Khrushchev's tanks in Budapest and America's unwillingness to aid the Hungarian revolt with action made caution mandatory. But Moscow finally realized that it could no longer hope to retain loyalties in Eastern Europe by mere dictation. Russian forces began withdrawing from the satellites; by 1958, the 55,000 Red Army troops that had arrived in Rumania 14 years earlier under General Rodion...
...continent where revolt, expropriation and inflation are common, Sears since 1960 has lifted sales from $103 million to $150 million. In the last decade-despite the nationalization of six stores by Castro's Cuba-Sears has tripled its number of stores to 64 in nine countries from Costa Rica to Brazil (plus seven in Puerto Rico). This week its top Latin American executives will meet in Mexico City, site of the biggest operation, to discuss further expansion. Next year the company will open two stores in Spain-its first European venture-and transfer some of its Latin American chiefs...