Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Woodrow Wilson's words to Congress, as quietly dramatic and eloquent as the man who spoke them, still ring with sharp urgency, still speak directly to the national conscience. But in a capital preoccupied with another war, there was no official observance last week to mark the day, 50 years ago, on which the United States entered World...
...told the judge. Somewhere behind him in the paneled courtroom Miller's infant daughter began to cry. Tossing back her long blonde hair, Miller's young wife briskly began breast feeding the child. Patiently, Judge Tyler reminded Miller that "no one had trammeled on your right to speak your views." Again, he offered Miller the chance to get another card. Again, Miller refused. The judge ordered him to jail for 2½years, then suggested that Miller spend the weekend with his family before surrendering. Miller not only rejected the offer, he sat down on the courtroom floor...
...STUDENT political movement of the 1960's is, in the totality of its means and ends, unique in American history. No single element of its approach is entirely new but the combination of these elements is new. To speak of a "movement" at all is to over-state the situation, for the very nature of the activity makes it dispersed and diverse. There are changing localities of action, vehicles for expression, tactics to pursue; and no developed ideology. It is a movement that can be seen and has been seen by many different people in many different ways...
...John Sparkman (D-Ala.) will speak on legislating for the city at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Burr...
Last summer, on a "Face the Nation" program, Governor George Romney baffled the press with vague, contradictory answers to questions about Vietnam. After that, he refused to express opinions on Vietnam until he could "thoroughly study the situation" and promised to speak "at the proper time...