Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what basis might the party draft him? "I would expect now to speak out on matters of importance to the American people"-including Viet Nam-"at the proper time." As recently as Oct. 17, Rockefeller had declared: "I don't want to be President." Had the old yen returned? "If that is what the party would like and they feel I can do the job, yes." Why this new availability? "I felt I had to make some response to the action taken by Romney. But I am not the type of person who acts instantly. Things evolve with...
Despite weeks of wading through New Hampshire's snowdrifts and pushing its doorbells, Romney showed up even weaker than Rockefeller, who has openly discouraged any campaigning for himself in the state. Surprisingly, only 9% of those polled had actually met Romney or even heard him speak in person. But if Republicans were not buying this year's model from Detroit, they were enthusiastic about the "new" Dick Nixon. Asked to pick their candidates' outstanding qualifications, 52% of the Nixonites cited his "maturity and experience" and 40% his "sincerity and conviction." As for Rocky, perhaps partly because...
...group of undergraduates organized Harvard Warmth last Fall, patterning it after a chapter at Columbia University. Somit said Warmth was founded to provide "a place for people to come down and speak in a normal atmosphere." Free coffee was provided, and cards and games were available...
...determined (the campus Students for a Democratic Society the night before had voted against any act of civil disobedience), refused to allow the Dow Chemical representative to leave Mallinckrodt until he signed an affidavit promising never to return. He refused good-naturedly, and the students even permitted him to speak without too much uproar. The 6-7 hours that the Dow Chemical man was "imprisoned" saw great student turmoil as it was virtually a constant mass meeting with students voting on all sorts of radical political questions. Along with this intellectual ferment went such ludicrous touches as the somewhat elderly...
...Wicker, columnist for the New York Times, will speak on "The Year Ahead" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House Junior Common Room as a part of the Ford Speakers Program...