Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people (including one woman, Physicist Laura Woods) were present at the squash-court experiment. Last week 27 of the survivors -Fermi and several others are dead-gathered in Washington to observe the 20th birthday of the Atomic Age. At a floodlit ceremony outside the White House, President Kennedy spoke to the group. "This development which has played a significant role in our history and in our lives," he said, "can be either good or bad depending on the use to which it is put. It is the obligation of those who bear positions of responsibility in various governments...
Even so, he loved them both-"Stevenson da, Castro da," But it was nyet, nyet, nyet when Mikoyan settled down to serious discussion of Cuba. During Mikoyan's small-talk sessions with Stevenson, some U.S. officials spoke of the possibility that the Russian was waiting to see President Kennedy before really doing business...
...spoke for France. Only two days earlier, in elections to the National Assembly, 6,165,000 Frenchmen overwhelmingly repudiated the irresponsible political system that for twelve years condemned the nation to perpetual crisis. They did so by giving De Gaulle's candidates the parliamentary majority that has eluded every other party in French history. The election came close to annihilating the old, bickering party blocs. The voters also entrusted De Gaulle with sweeping personal powers such as no other ruler of France has wielded since Louis Napoleon. For France, five years of stable government seemed assured. More than that...
...Only Man. "Maintain" was not really the word. "Prevail" was more like it. All her life she spoke of the pomp and protocol that enveloped her as "the cage," and she never ceased struggling to escape its confines. As a constitutional monarch she had limited executive powers; yet she learned statecraft so thoroughly that Cabinet ministers were constantly being stumped by her sharp questioning. In exile during World War II, so efficient was she that one escaped Dutch Resistance fighter marveled. "The government in London was a bunch of chattering wives, but there was one man: the Queen...
...addition, two members of the Divinity School who are attending the Vatican Council, Douglas Horton, dean of the Faculty of Divinity, emeritus, and Heiko A. Oberman, associate professor of Church History, spoke with Vatican representatives about the conference before the invitation was sent...