Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known that he would support Mrs. Meir for the premiership but would oppose any other candidate, whether Allon or such dark-horse possibilities as Secretary-General of the Labor Party Pinhas Sapir or Foreign Minister Abba Eban. The decision was prudent on Dayan's part, since he would stand little chance of winning a party fight with Mrs. Meir...
Depopulating the Center. The President ordered Vice President Agnew to meet with the National Governors Conference and explore possible actions at state and federal levels to "cope with the growing lawlessness and violence on our campuses." The Governors took a middle course, voting approval of Nixon's stand but rejecting a proposal by California's Ronald Reagan for a "full" federal investigation of whether the disorders are part of a nationwide plan. New York's Nelson Rockefeller insisted that disturbances should be handled at the state level without federal intervention where possible. Meantime, Father Hesburgh wrote Agnew...
...editor of the student newspaper at the State University of New York's Binghamton campus. "We ought to be looking at what is wrong rather than talking about quelling student outbursts." John Michael, a University of Kansas senior, argued that students would be disillusioned by Nixon's stand "because it seems to eliminate any form of dissent." Nixon has "contributed to the polarization of left and right," declared Roland Trope, a senior at the University of Southern California. "He forces the mid-left and the mid-right to make a choice, and so depopulates the center...
Harvard's basketball team ends its season today against Dartmouth at Hanover. The cagers' record is 7-17, and they stand a fair chance of finishing with their poorest record since...
...Rogers Albritton, professor in Philosophy, Samuel Beer, professor in Government, and Robert Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer in English Literature, are the faculty members under whose signed advice X was approved. All this, of course, is to establish some sort of credibility. You see, X is no one night stand; no, as they say, fair-weather baby; not a flash in the pan, you know; not this one, no fly-by-night...