Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson fairly swept his audience along, drew his first applause when he quoted Matthew: "For, with a country as with a person, 'What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' " The emotion took hold; the Texas twang rose and billowed. He smiled beatifically, sighed sarcastically, frowned fiercely: he pursed his lips, jerked his thumb, clenched his fists, reasoned, cajoled, commanded. No section of the U.S.. said Johnson, should "look with prideful righteousness on the troubles in another section," for "there is no Negro problem. There...
...just Negroes, but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice." Then, in careful, metered, sledgehammer syllables, he added: "And-we-shall-over-come!" Without hesitation-no leader this time needed to start it -his audience rose in another thunderous standing ovation...
...desultory afternoon last week, New York's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, 76, rose in the sparsely populated House chamber to perform a labor of love. Celler's task: to speak on his bill outlawing gerrymandering of congressional districts. It was a subject close to Manny Celler's old Brooklyn heart...
...born in Roanoke, the son of a locomotive engineer. He graduated from Yale Law School, served as a New Deal-era counsel for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Federal Power Commission. In the 1940s he was a lawyer for the War Production Board; during the Korean War he rose to director of the Office of Defense Mobilization...
Bushy-browed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died of pneumonia at 63 in Bucharest last week, was, with East Ger many's Walter Ulbricht, the last of the unregenerate Stalinists who rose to power on the Red Army wave that swept over Eastern Europe in 1944. None theless, in his last years, he earned some popularity by astute maneuvering that won Rumania a measure of independence from Soviet domination...