Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrival in Kiev, capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Rademaekers was greeted in French by an Intourist guide. Although he speaks German, Hungarian, and some Italian and Spanish, Rademaekers has no facility in French. He asked the guide if she spoke English or any of the other languages. "No," she informed him coldly. "You are French." The correspondent produced his passport and tried to explain why the visa came from Paris, not New York. But since the guide could speak no English and he no French, the conversation ended with a surly driver delivering the "Frantsuzsky tourist" downtown...
...English, you speak?" "American, I am," said Rademaekers. That brought an Intourist guide who announced in fluent American: "You will be given a bigger room. We thought you were French...
Small Price. So far, the debate has been largely one-sided, since the scientists and technicians engaged in secret research have been unable to ex plain what they do. But professors in a position to speak out argue that much of the advanced work in their fields-whether they like it or not-is related to defense programs. Stanford Electronics Laboratories Director William...
Object of Ridicule. Far from making Christianity more relevant, says Ramsey, such woolly-headed pronouncements make it at best an object of ridicule, at worst a menace to prudent political judgment. The impact of these declamations is also weakened by the fact that the activist theologians cannot possibly speak for all Christians, given the differences of political viewpoints within the church. Ramsey finds a certain irony in the fact that the secularist syndrome is prevalent among Protestants, who are now seeking "to assume decisions that belong in the realm of the state." Ramsey argues that "not even the 'magisterium...
...convention this weekend. Robert Vaughn, co-chairman of Dissenting Democrats, Allard K. Lowenstein, co-chairman of Conference of Concerned Democrats, Martin Shephard of the Citizens for Kennedy group, and Richard Goodwin, former aide to President Kennedy who has been closely associated with dump Johnson forces recently, will speak Saturday to the Young Democrats...