Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: Could you please tell me why everyone is explaining this week's stock market rise as the result of peace hopes, the possible end of inflation, etc., when it is so obvious that the real reason for the rise is those amazing Mets...
...Sir: The New York Mets have accomplished a task that neither mayoralty, gubernatorial nor presidential candidates have been able to achieve. They have been the first in many years to unify not only attitudes but racial gaps. They have made optimists...
...Sir: Your recent Essay "Charisma" [Oct. 17] was splendid and timely, but I must take issue with your characterization of Clement Atlee's postwar government in Britain as "dull, bureaucratic but quintessentially normal." The Atlee regime inaugurated six years of the most far-reaching social reconstruction in British history. It established the vast welfare state at home and presided over the dissolution of the British Empire abroad. The Atlee regime may have been dull and bureaucratic, but it most assuredly was not "quintessentially normal...
...Sir: In your Essay, how could you overlook one of the most inspirational leaders of the past year? To the people of Czechoslovakia Alexander Dubcek represented hope, and during a year's stay in that country we saw the hope fade as his official influence was replaced. But months after Husak took over leadership, one could still buy pins and pictures of Dubcek at souvenir stands in Praha. Hope may be gone but not the memories...
...Sir: You state that we are without leadership as we are now bereft of the towering presence of John F. Kennedy and instead have that bland Richard Nixon thrust upon...