Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's ruling upon itself. Last July, Nixon settled upon a desegregation policy that would concentrate upon progress through court orders rather than through Washington's second available weapon, the withholding of Health, Education and Welfare Department funds from noncomplying school districts. In August, HEW Secretary Robert Finch, supported by Attorney General lohn Mitchell, granted 33 Mississippi school districts a grace period of three months, until Dec. 1, to adopt a HEW-drawn plan for desegregation. Actual integration would have been delayed even further...
...election was the P.M. himself. Gorton, 58, took over the party's leadership 21 months ago, after the disappearance of Harold Holt in a tragic swimming accident. Initially, Gorton was immensely popular. He seemed a refreshing change from his two most immediate predecessors: the aloof, Olympian Sir Robert Menzies and the shy. withdrawn Holt. Then troubles began to pile up. Critics cited his penchant for naming unqualified cronies to high ministerial posts, his reluctance to take advice, his generally autocratic manner, and his indiscreet behavior...
...country on earth. Here too, think tanks like the Rand Corp. have evolved and become indispensable. With extraordinary skill ?and hubris?their staffers tackle virtually every problem in America, from campus riots to noise pollution. Think tanks by the score have attracted an intellectual elite to California. Robert Hutchins, president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara, observes that the San Francisco-Los Angeles university axis has become "an intellectual flyway...
Vellucci and incumbent Thomas W. Danehy ran second and third with totals of 2234 and 2195 votes respectively. Newcomer Robert P. Moncreiff finished a strong fourth with 2104 votes...
...yesterday in states where President Nixon had made special campaign trips. In Virginia. Linwood Holton became the first Republican governor since the 1880's when he beat William Battle. And in Now Jersey, Republican Congressman William Cahill took almost 60 per cent of the vote in defeating former governor Robert Meyner...