Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombers roamed above North Viet Nam's 19th parallel, and even south of that line there was a slight decrease in the number of raids. In its effort to intensify the strains be tween the U.S. and South Viet Nam, Hanoi had unexpected help. In a carelessly phrased comment during an appearance in Maine, Hubert Humphrey said that the conferees had "now" agreed to admit representatives of the Viet Cong and the Saigon regime to the negotiations. At some point, that is going to happen, if the talks are to continue; but it has not happened yet, and Humphrey...
...Democratic ballot. But without a majority, he was forced into a runoff on June 1 with Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, 56. An archconservative, Smith will probably gain the right-wing votes that were shared with other candidates in the first tally, and thus must now be counted a slight favorite. The runoff will bring the two wings of the Texas Democratic Party into direct confrontation. As a result, the Governor's mansion and all of its powers of patronage might conceivably go to the G.O.P. for the first time in the state's history. Republican Paul Eggers...
...means all, of the Intellectuals, who would like to see some cultural liberalization in Poland are Jews. The Bureaucrats seek to discredit the entire movement, recognizing it as ultimately political in nature, by portraying it as led by Jews--and then branding these Jews as anti-nationalistic. A slight degree of plausibility for these charges, which may be all that is needed to tap the latent anti-Semitism of the Polish masses, is provided by the fact that many of the leaders of the Stalinist regime in Poland before 1956, and indeed many key officials of the secret police, were...
...critical problem which remains is creating courses to fill out the program. For Afro-American studies to exist at Harvard more than nominally, the Faculty must quickly recruit black scholars and make sure that departments do not continue to slight Africa in the group of courses they offer to undergraduates...
...there is one slight obstacle to surmount before the team can pack their bags, and that is almost every golf team on the East coast...