Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think only of mass audience and TV sales. Contemporary social phenomena, prevented from developing in peace, are instantly exploited by a Hollywood desperate to be the first on the marketing bandwagon. Thus Hollywood supplies a hippie to the curious netherworld between San Francisco and New York--a hippie one step closer to reality than John Wayne's faceless chattering Vietcong, but already a stock figure for a director to plug into any context available...
...Clark Clifford and then-Ambassador to the United Nations George Ball appeal for greater flexibility. Then Johnson delivered a choleric lecture against any gesture to mollify Hanoi. He argued that 1) Hanoi was in no mood to reciprocate; 2) the enemy would take advantage of such a halt to step up supply convoys to the South; and 3) it would be immensely difficult, politically speaking, to resume the bombing if Hanoi failed to respond...
...socialism," but also gave preliminary approval to the "temporary stationing" of Warsaw Pact troops throughout his country-a concession that would legalize an indefinite occupation. Though Czechoslovak leaders have privately pledged that "no one will be arrested here for his political beliefs," the agreement also calls for a step-up in "efforts to increase the leading role of the Communist Party." Most important of all, the agreement provides for reinforcing the party and government with "true Marxist-Leninists" -a qualification that, in effect, lets Moscow pass on the orthodoxy of all important appointees in Czechoslovakia. Having failed to subvert...
Papadopoulos' attitude was a disappointment for some Greeks, who had voted NAÍ (yes) in the hope that the new constitution would be a first step toward a return to representational government. Many more Greeks, however, voted NAÍ mainly because they felt that it would be highly imprudent not to do so. In the countryside, where the junta's rule is especially entrenched, voters were handed only the NAÍ ballot by the election officials, and few voters dared ask for the ÓX1 (no) ballots, which were kept out of their reach. At some polling stations...
...answer, leaders of the majority argued that restructuring, by helping the Disciples carry out a better-organized Christian mission, is actually a step toward the larger unity that Campbell envisioned. One concrete result of the reorganization will be that the Disciples can take a more decisive part in the Consultation on Church Union, the ambitious ecumenical venture that is seeking to merge nine main-line denominations into a Protestant superchurch. The Disciples have participated in C.O.C.U. since 1963, but now they will be able to get clearer decisions from the membership on unity issues...