Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROBERT ARDREY Rome
...take his place; his modern clinic has been closed ever since, and the 5,000 people who live in and around the little northeastern Tennessee community were forced to drive 28 miles to visit the nearest doctor in a neighboring town. Several months ago, the Rev. Robert E. Button, 28, one of a group of citizens who had been searching for a new doctor, saw an advertisement in TIME placed by a junior college that was seeking funds...
Wondering how a school so small could have afforded to pay for the full-page appeal, Button called Robert C. Barr, TIME'S associate ad director in New York, to inquire about the ad. Barr explained that the junior college appeal had been run without charge as part of a special program that TIME began for colleges three years ago. But Barr made Button a sporting proposition: if the town of Surgoinsville could supply the illustration and wording, TIME would run an ad free...
Early in the week Michigan's Senator Robert Griffin, the newly elected Republican whip, discovered a troubling trend among his colleagues. Polling the other 42 G.O.P. Senators, Griffin found a widespread desire to remain loyal to party and President. At the same time, several Senators indicated that they either did not want to vote for Haynsworth or had serious doubts about him. The legislators were angry at being put on the spot because of the negligence of Attorney General John Mitchell. Mitchell had recommended Haynsworth to Nixon. They felt that after the scandal-sodden resignation of Abe Fortas...
...burgeoning affair. While focused on college campuses (see EDUCATION), the protest was gaining the support of religious and civil rights groups, radicals and wealthy liberals, politicians in Congress and in many communities. The forces were mainly those that had rallied behind the presidential candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy a year...