Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anew. A dozen religious leaders wrote to Lyndon Johnson to express their regret that he is sanctioning the bombing of targets "in or near residential sections of Hanoi, even if many civilians die." Democratic Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Vance Hartke of Indiana called on Johnson to stop the bombing unilaterally. On the other hand, South Carolina's Congressman Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, urged the U.S. to "flatten Hanoi if necessary" and "to hell with world opinion." Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell declared that Hanoi's "intransigence" left...
Manchester lay ill last week in a Connecticut hospital, the victim of "reactive depression" and pneumonia induced by strain and fatigue. Jackie Kennedy vacationed in the British West Indies, and Bobby Kennedy still skied in Sun Valley - yet that did not stop defenders and detractors from choosing up sides...
...make trouble" for Tito. He will keep away from Western correspondents "as much as possible" and perhaps even go into hiding for a while. But will he give up his political writing? "His life is politics," a Djilas friend once commented. "You might as well ask him to stop breathing...
...Stop-&-Go. Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's new coalition government, fretting more about the possibility of recession than about the pressure of inflation, last month called on Karl Blessing's constitutionally independent Bundesbank to implement a "decisive relaxation of credit restrictions." That approach failed to win Blessing's blessing. Fearful that an easing of monetary restraints alone would lead to increased inflation, Blessing insisted that West Germany's federal, state and municipal governments curb their often lavish spending. Otherwise, he said, the country will wind up with "the same stop-and-go policy that has worked...
...blocking and tackling," says Lombardi. "If you block and tackle better than the other people, you win." No fancy offensive formations for him, no kamikaze blitzes on defense. "You always know what those goddam Packers are going to do," says a rival coach, "but you still can't stop them - they never make mistakes." Well, almost never. "I remember that game against Minnesota last year," says Lombardi, "when we had a 7-0 lead early and went right down again to fourth and one for the goal, and decided to go for the touchdown instead of the field goal...