Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made me very sad to see Tommie Smith and John Carlos making their demonstration for Black Power. Winning the gold and bronze medals were great personal achievements, and I am sure that any Negroes watching were proud. But was it necessary to degrade the otherwise moving ceremonies? I think there are many South African Negroes who could tell these men things that would make them appreciate their freedom-yes, freedom! I think that Smith and Carlos are only hurting the cause they hold closest to their hearts by alienating white Americans and giving people like George Wallace a chance...
Foes of the Viet Nam war bitterly remember the 1964 election in which many voted for Johnson because he promised peace, even though they had reservations about him in other respects. As they see it, Johnson went on to adopt Barry Goldwater's war policies. This time, they see no significant differences between the candidates on Viet Nam. To register a moral protest, many war dissenters plan to boycott the polls entirely on the theory that a huge nonvote will somehow shock the new Ad ministration, or at least free dissenters from complicity in electing Nixon or Humphrey, both...
Lindsay was in a chatty mood, laughing over an Art Buchwald column on "pseudo intellectuals," scanning the morning's New York Times to see what Scotty Reston said. The Mayor paraphrased Dickens' opening lines in A Tale of Two Cities: "These are the worst of times and the best of times...
...foundation money to do voter education and registration work in Atlanta and also set up a communications network among black southern politicians throughout the South. Bond believes that a great deal of progress can be made rapidly since, as he says, "as opposed to the North, we can see far more clearly what has to be done and exactly who and what stands between black folk and political power...
...received no money for her role, but that she thought Rocchino had been paid for expenses. She denied taking an active part in contacting or hiding Schober, but said that, during the rendezvous with him, she had telephoned a West German woman with the code words "Christian wants to see...