Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary Robert Finch said that they feared that the Supreme Court's "cold-turkey" approach would accelerate the exodus of whites to proliferating private schools, eroding taxpayer support for the public schools and thereby undermining the education given to the blacks and poor whites who remain (see EDUCATION). Obviously, Politician Mitchell, who has pledged to enforce the law fully, also shudders at the prospect of having to order federal marshals or troops in Mississippi to repress disorders by potential Republican voters...
...overthrow of the Diem regime. Among the guests was General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, a popular leader of the 1963 plot and an old Thieu rival, who is regarded as the possible leader of a coalition government. Asked about his plans, he is quoted as replying: "You will see. I am ready to do anything to serve the cause of unity among my people." Don, who was the chief architect of the plot against Diem, favors neutrality for South Viet Nam and a severance of ties with the U.S. At the party, he openly warned that "a coup once made...
...years. Moreover, as proof of his realistic approach, he is believed ready to renounce Germany's claim to the 40,000 square miles of former German territory inside Poland and work out an agreement that would grant a form of recognition to the Communist government of East Germany (see...
...numbers alone, the great city will continue to exist. F. Scott Fitzgerald was speaking of Manhattan, but he might just as well have been talking of London or Paris-or Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon or Justinian's Constantinople. Looking at it from afar, he said, was always to see it "in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world...
...looking like some improbable flotsam that had drifted in on a high tide, the last relic of a disposal civilization. The Aussies were taking it all in stride. Last weekend, some 2,500 of them happily trooped out to Little Bay and plunked down the modest 20? admission to see what this artist named Christo had wrought...