Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specific issue of ROTC the Faculty had shown itself unusually responsive to student opinion. The ROTC issue was raised at student initiative. The Faculty has received resolutions from the SFAC and the HUC and also the excellent report of HRPC. At the same Faculty meeting when Professor Putnam spoke, Professor Albritton reported on the discussions of ROTC in SFAC and Professor Lipset recorded the views of YPSL, including the view that a college-wide referendum should be taken. Moreover, the ensuing Faculty discussion suggested that Faculty views on ROTC are quite close to representative student opinions, certainly much closer than...
Then Captain Lloyd Bucher came to the microphone. A gentle man with a faint voice, Bucher was still crying as he began to speak. Reagan's daughter and two Navy officers standing behind Bucher began to cry as he spoke. He was sorry, Bucher said, for the trouble he caused the country by "losing one of its very fine ships." "We had been unfortunate by being in the wrong place with too many of them and too few of us to do anything about turning over a United States ship...
...often reluctantly, the crewmen spoke of their captivity. There was even one light moment. Seaman Edward Russell said one North Korean guard asked him, "Do you have a car?" "Yes," Russell replied. "You lie!" the guard blurted. "President Johnson has all the cars...
...antiwar left are among her best reporting. An early supporter of Eugene McCarthy, she switched to Robert Kennedy and tried to unite her friends in the two factions. "Because of preference for one or another of two men whose platforms were not very different," she wrote, "friends no longer spoke to friends. Gossip about who had switched to whom politically was suddenly as juicy as who was having an affair with whom. But less tolerant...
...candidate ("When Nixon is alone in a room, is anyone there?"), but her interview with Pat Nixon provided a striking glimpse into Mrs. Nixon's personality. Made uncomfortable by Gloria's questioning about "what she identified with, other than daughters and husband," Mrs. Nixon finally spoke, "low-voiced and resentful; like a long accusation, the words flowed out. 'I never had time to think about things like that - who I wanted to be, or who I admired, or to have ideas. I never had time to dream about being anyone else. I don't have time...