Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often clasping his hands in a gesture of prayer, the Buddhist priest spoke bluntly, but in a soft and hesitant English. "I am a messenger from the suffering peasants in South Vietnam," Nhat Hanh announced, "and I have come here to tell you that the war must stop...
...first time, New York's four-week-old newspaper strike showed signs of a settlement. The printers' boss, Bert Powers, settled with the publishers, and World Journal Tribune President Matt Meyer spoke with unaccustomed optimism. "The typographical union," he said, "did not burden us with restrictive practices and extra manpower that would cripple us before we started. The settlement is expensive in terms of money but not in terms of numbers of men. So far as our composing room is concerned, we can operate reasonably competitively with other papers in New York...
...staying close to the news is also a matter of conviction as well as temperament. Reston is practically obsessed with the importance of the newspaper's educational role. (In forty-minute interview recently, that was the only topic on which he volunteered a comment-and he spoke with fervor when he did.) And newspapers can best perform this role by showing the significance of current events...
...Secretary of Defense spoke at a luncheon of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, attended by about 500 U.S. and Canadian editors...
...demonstrations, the tendency toward rebellion for its own sake." The way to overhaul it all, said Ford, is "to join the war on poverty. The free-enterprise system will not gain the acceptance it needs until all men share in the abundance that system provides." One night after Henry spoke, he shared some of his own abundance with an unworthy citizen-the thief who foot-padded into his Manhattan apartment and disappeared with $50,000 worth of his wife Christina's jewels...