Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands that Peking published and broadcast an open letter to Shanghai's citizens urging them to rise up against the "bourgeois reactionaries" bucking Mao. The anti-Maoists were accused of organizing workers into Red Militia Brigades as an answer to the Red Guards, of encouraging labor to stop production and go to Peking to protest against the Cultural Revolution. Putting "not politics but bank notes in command," railed Peking, the anti-Maoists used their control of local party funds to raise wages and welfare allowances, provided the dissident marchers to Peking with handsome travel allowances and new clothes...
Died. Grenville Clark, 84, Wall Street lawyer, Harvard benefactor (a member of the "Corporation" for 19 years), World Federalist and friend to two Presidents named Roosevelt, who did not let that stop him from organizing a national lawyers' committee to fight F.D.R.'s Supreme Court "packing" plan in 1937, later drafted the 1940 Selective Service Act, established the American Bar Association's civil rights committee, and wrote a voluminous treatise (World Peace Through World Law) calling for extensive revision of the United Nations charter, total disarmament and formation of a world development organization to promote peace...
...Crittenden's best effects are gained through a sort of contrapuntal dialogue. One of Howard's loves tells him the story of her life, including the part about her older brother, who was hit by an automobile. "It was terrible," she says. "The driver couldn't stop because he was competing in a Mobilgas Economy Run." "Try not to think about it," says Howard...
What advantages does this device have over auditing a course? Answer: it introduces a new element of compulsion. Once a student has decided to take a fifth course, which he thinks is good for him, he will have the university administration to stop him from backing out. No student, says Mr. Edward Wilcox, will be allowed to drop a pass-fail course late in the term. Otherwise he would lack the incentive to broaden himself...
...four paragraph letter, the writers said that although they realized the difficulty of the decision to stop the bombing, they felt "the potential benefits outweighed the risks, and that the gamble is a necessary...