Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Easing the Burden. Before Johnson spoke, rumors had swirled around the capital that he would announce the dis patch of roughly 30,000 more U.S. troops to Viet Nam-in addition to the 525,000 already authorized. Instead, he announced that only 13,500 more men would be sent in the next five months...
...their feet and sang: "May he live 100 years." All in all, it could have been a national birthday party for Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka-but instead it was the tensest moment in his nearly dozen years in power. After eleven days of nationwide student demonstrations, Gomulka, 63, finally spoke out in an effort to restore order to Poland. What he said was sur prisingly mild but, partially for that reason, it failed to mollify the rebellious students. As they began a third week of defiance of the regime, the students constituted a smoldering fire that could break...
Thus last week spoke Justice Hugo Lafayette Black, 82, long considered a leading member of the Supreme Court's activist wing. In a series of three lectures at Columbia University, he took the unusual step of publicly out lining his philosophy. Too often, he said, judges forget that they have taken "an oath to support the Constitution as it is, not as they think it should...
Sitting with the Western world's chief central bankers as they weighed the gold crisis last week in Washington was a saturnine Frenchman who still bears the scars of his days as a Buchenwald prisoner. Though Pierre-Paul Schweft-zer, 55, spoke rarely, he got undivided attention when he did. As managing director of the 107-nation International Monetary Fund-which acts as an arbiter of exchange rates, guardian of fiscal good behavior among sovereign states, and rescue squad for countries in financial trouble-Schweitzer holds a pivotal role not only in the present struggle to shore...
...have to take three history courses before they can take a course in Negro history. When they asked several months ago that this be changed, the Administration flatly refused. Howard administrators had similarly dismissed requests for a student judiciary system, threatening and occasionally carring out reprisals against students who spoke out against them. Last spring 18 students and three instructors were fired for participating in the student boycott of classes...