Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty after dockets for the meeting had been printed and mailed. More Faculty members would have come if they knew Dow was going on the agenda, but most of the additional votes would probably have been against postponement. The group that did vote was closely enough split on the resolution that some, including its author Zeph Stewart, think it would have passed if resolution for postponement had set a date instead of leaving it open-ended...
...Playboy. His How to Get Out of Viet Nam, a 47-page, 350 broadside, has gone through a printing of 250,000. As national chairman of the liberal, 50,000-member Americans for Democratic Action, he has helped push the group to the brink of a possibly irreparable split by promoting the presidential candidacy of Viet Nam Critic Eugene McCarthy...
Galbraith contends that the U.S. went into Viet Nam under the mistaken notion that it was fighting "a centrally directed Communist conspiracy." In the light of the Moscow-Peking split, he adds, that notion is no longer valid, and the U.S. ought to quit wasting its energies there at the expense of domestic needs and of other, more important areas, such as Japan and India. Viet Nam is "the wrong place to make a stand," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1966. "If we were not in Viet Nam, all that part of the world would be enjoying...
...really mistrust?Richard Nixon." At week's end the A.D.A. national board voted, 65 to 47, to endorse McCarthy's candidacy?with an amendment, introduced by Chairman Galbraith, recognizing that individual members are free to support other candidates. Whether this halfhearted compromise will prevent an irreparable split is questionable. One obvious apostate was former Chairman John Roche, President Johnson's house intellectual, who immediately said he would resign from the organization...
...ground station at Brewster Flat, Wash. There the signal was ricocheted off the Lani Bird 2 satellite 22,300 miles above the Pacific Ocean, picked up in Ibaraki, Japan, and relayed through Tokyo to an additional 600 stations and millions of homes. From stadium to Scarsdale split-level to sake bar in Tokyo, the entire 100,000-mile journey took only a little more than half a second...