Word: salts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMITH Salt Lake City...
...turning point came on Sept. 30 in Salt Lake City, the day after Humphrey endured some of the worst heckling of the entire campaign. Fists clenched, lips tight, he flew to Utah to deliver a speech pledging that if he became President, he would risk halting the bombing of North Viet Nam in the hope of achieving peace. Twice before, Johnson had undercut him when he tried to stake out even moderately independent positions on the war. This time there was not a word from the White House...
Racial tension and student involvement in education are profound issues. We must listen to students and not again make the unforgiveable mistake of the late 1950's when some scholars, well worth their salt, watched from a safe distance the changing world of the South and chose to focus on the least significant topic of the time, the psychodynamics of courageous civil rights workers. Thomas J. Cottle Assistant Professor of Social Relations
...their rush to relevancy, Harvard, or more particularly the history department, overlooked the fact that black students would be concerned with the "intellectual salt" of a course on the Afro-American experience. Certainly the black students who called Professor Friedel into question took a more direct route than is usually seen at Harvard, and indeed some toes were stepped on. But I'm less concerned that some toes got stepped on (though I must confess a certain chagrin that it happened to a man who has been a constant, even if quiet, advocate for black dignity) than with the fact...
...gaieté parisienne. Since Charles de Gaulle's relations with Washington turned frosty in the early 1960s, however, the post has had some of the aspects of representing the U.S. in a hostile land. There were those who suspected Lyndon Johnson of shipping Sargent Shriver to the Siberian salt mines when the President picked him to succeed Career Diplomat Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Paris. Bohlen made no secret of his sense of futility in dealing with the Elysee and the Quai d'Orsay. Undaunted, Shriver has brought to his new job the same inventiveness and dash with which...