Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, Idaho Democrat Frank Church declared that Viet Nam is "a war we cannot finish," called for a settlement guaranteed by the United Nations or a special peace-keeping force. North Dakota Democrat George McGovern said his mail has been running 15 to 1 for negotiations, said: "It is not appeasement to recognize that the problem of Southeast Asia does not lend itself to a military solution...
...clerk who visited Cuba early last summer and returned to organize the Black Liberation Front. Also charged were Walter Augustus Bowe, 32, a onetime trumpet player who used to lead a combo called "The Angry Black Men," but more recently has worked as a $50-a-week New York settlement-house youth leader, and boyish-looking Khaleel Sul-tarn Sayyed, 22, son of an Arab-descended Negro who runs a Brooklyn delicatessen. And then there was husky (6 ft. 1 in., 201 lbs.) Raymond A. Wood, 31, a former Chester, S.C., high school football star...
Divorced. Lauritz Melchior, 74, retired patriarch of Wagnerian tenors; by Mary Markham, 40, once his secretary, now a top Hollywood booking agent, whom he married last May, 15 months after the death of his second wife; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty; in Santa Monica, Calif. Settlement: $20,000 in cash, with another $80,000 to follow upon Melchior's death...
...break the impasse, the President named Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor and Oregon Senator Wayne Morse as members of a panel to recommend settlement terms within 42 hours. With that, things began to happen. The National Labor Relations Board, which normally takes weeks to ponder such moves, got federal courts in New York and Baltimore to order the strikers back to work. The union at first ignored the injunctions, but at week's end "Teddy" Gleason, perhaps noting the congressional clamor for a law to forbid another such walkout, ordered his men back to their...
...were 45 untested men in Lewis' party and appalling instructions in his pouch: 1) explore the northern half of the new territory, 2) find a navigable northwest passage to the Pacific, 3) establish U.S. sovereignty over the Indian tribes, 4) make accurate maps and note favorable sites for settlement, 5) catalogue the animal, vegetable, mineral and human resources, and 6) do the whole...