Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Politics, "a group that has denounced Israel as 'imperialist,' that has come out in support of 'wars of national liberation,' no matter what their political character or threat to world peace, that has contemptuously dismissed the democratic process and allowed itself to be manipulated by spokesmen for crudely nationalistic views." In a separate protest, every officer of SANE's Northern California regional office resigned over the same basic issue...
...bursar's cards kept trickling in all afternoon and demonstration spokesmen periodically handed them over to officials cloistered in M-102. Daniel B. Magraw '68, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, Henry R. Norr '68, head of the Harvard Policy Committee, and Harlon L. Dalton '69, president of Young Democrats, were among those who surrendered their cards...
...meeting got underway at about 9 a.m. in a second floor conference room in the west wing of the White House. Strobe Talbott from Yale and Steve Cohen, who had just graduated Amherst, would be two of the principle student spokesmen. Douglass Cater, a presidential advisor and one of the Administration's "liberals in residence"; Daniel Davidson, a Bundy aide; and William Bundy were among the Administration representatives...
...spokesmen said they feared that the terrors of the deadpan, we're-here-on-the-scene reporting would send the public into the streets screaming as did the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. Charged Director Peter Watkins, "The BBC was really afraid that the truth about the effects of nuclear war would result in a massive protest to ban the bomb...
...fight against urban slums, one huge reservoir of money and talent-the business community-has been largely overlooked. Now, with a powerful economy mood in Washington blocking any large new federal programs, urban spokesmen, both in Congress and the Johnson Administration, are looking for ways to lure private industry into the ghettos. Business, in turn, seems to be awakening to its opportunities as well as its responsibilities in the cities. Last week, as proof, the nation's life insurance industry pledged to invest $1 billion in the slums...