Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story about Dr. Carlson and the Congo [Dec. 4] was all the more moving because of its restraint. Carlson, picked out and identified but carefully not glorified, shines like a good deed in a very naughty world -to whose conscience you spoke very clearly...
Rarely in a single week had two Americans spoken with greater authority and eloquence on the contemporary condition of man. In Oslo, where he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for 1964, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke with the insight of a Negro who has led his race's monumental struggle without ever losing the faith and idealism that gave inspiration to his people. Half a world away in Washington, Lyndon Johnson talked from the broader perspective of the presidency, where pragmatism, no less than idealism, is a prime quality of leadership. Both men served their purposes...
Buddhists also threatened anti-government and anti-British demonstrations. Buddhist propaganda condemned British Ambassador Gordon Etherington-Smith and demanded his recall. Etherington-Smith recently spoke praising Huong...
...Savio's speeches are not great rhetoric. He neither harangues the crowd with emotional challenges nor convinces it with intellectual precision. When he spoke in Lowell Lecture Hall last Friday, his tone was personal and appealing. As he moved slowly through a rambling account of the riots at Berkeley, castigating Kerr for turning the university into a "knowledge factory," he paused frequently to gather his thoughts. When he made a point and saw that the audience was pleased, he would cock his head back and grin. After reciting some story of unfairness by the administration, he suddenly stopped...
...Johnson once called it "the greatest group of businessmen in the world," and the Business Council is certainly the nation's leading society of business elite. Its 179 members-most of them chairmen or presidents of great corporations-can usually get the presidential ear; President Johnson last week spoke with them twice. But the private group is far less important for the occasional advice it offers the Government than for the effect its public consensus has on the nation's business psychology. Last week the council elected a new chairman, whose name, face and words will be before...