Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to wait long. He made sergeant in 1945, lieutenant in 1949, captain in 1953. After he was made deputy chief in 1960, he revamped the department's record-keeping system, modernized communications, and set up new cost-accounting methods. More and more, he began to speak for ailing Chief William Parker...
Nixon was the first to speak. He had decided at a strategy meeting earlier in the day to initially speak of his qualifications for the office of the Presidency; he wanted to show that he was a versatile and experienced man, he wanted to show the nation a fresh Nixon. So his initial speech was taken up with an explanation of how he had been on the Johnny Carson show and had spoken of his childhood desire to be a concert pianist at which point Mr. Carson suggested that he play the piano for the people now, an offer which...
...theme is one of rejection of the life that has been arranged for them--and it is clear that in this the hippies' actions speak louder than their words--and a defiant optimism about their chances in the task of shifting everybody else's allegiances...
LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "We Will Speak, Who Will Answer?" The people of Portland, Ore., speak and answer in this second part of a series that studies the ways in which eight different cities are handling race relations, housing and other problems through community action...
...miles from Kamchatka on the Siberian mainland. "The whole place looked half-abandoned," said Army Specialist Five Theodore Sokardo. "The runway was narrow and the field buildings were dingy and, wellere flashed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow, who took advantage of a similar treaty-signing ceremony to speak with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin about the airliner. He assured the Soviet leader that any violation of Soviet airspace was unintentional. Kosygin stalled, saying the incident was being investigated...