Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later in the week, both Nixon and Graham spoke before a crowd of 2,000 at an annual presidential prayer breakfast in the Sheraton-Park Hotel. The President reported that each evening he reads selected letters addressed to him from all over the country. Sounding a little like Graham himself, he said: "Even in this period when religion is not supposed to be fashionable, when agnosticism and skepticism seem to be on the upturn [the mail includes] prayers for this country, for the leadership this nation may be able to provide for the world...
...more than half a century, their humor has come largely out of their exotic argot. It is their link now with a more exciting, more amusing past. We went back next morning to the house of the old man who spoke the language. His name is Phocian McGimsey, but everybody calls him Levi. He is 73. His grandfather came West to Boonville in 1852. He told us that the language is "Boontling," which is a corruption of Boonville Lingo. In English sprinkled with Boontling, Levi described what Boonville was like in those days: a rough frontier town first settled...
Judith T. Seligson '72, one of the students who spoke on Monday, urged a coeducational "experiment" as soon as possible...
Johnson's mood was solemn as he spoke of the war. "I regret more than any of you know," he said, "that it has not been possible to restore peace to South Viet Nam." But he scorned critics who have contended that Viet Nam has drained needed funds from butter for guns. "We have been able in the last five years to increase our commitments for such things as health and education from $30 billion in 1964 to $68 billion in the coming fiscal year. That's more than it's ever been increased...
Sobell's wife Helen, who teaches science at a Manhattan school, never ceased to labor for his release. She spoke millions of words at protest meetings and ground out countless appeals for help on an electric typewriter, the one modern appliance in the Sobells' drab Greenwich Village apartment. With friends who stood behind Sobell throughout his imprisonment, she spent roughly $1,000,000 on legal maneuvers, including seven fruitless pleas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Money came from those who believed that Sobell had not received a fair trial. Among the doubters were Nobel Prizewinning chemists Harold...