Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrat, and I am voting-if I get a chance-for Barry. It looks like the internationalists and New Dealers are scared someone might stop the big spending. It would be wonderful if we could get a "pro-American" for a change as President...
...isolated militarily and economically by both U.S.S.R. and U.S. policy," might turn desperately aggressive. In Southeast Asia, said she, "we must hold firm even if it becomes necessary to wield a nuclear stick over the head of Mao Tse-tung." But, added Speaker Luce, there are other ways to stop Chinese expansionism. "For example, what argument can be made for our present policy of trading with the Russians or selling them wheat that cannot also be made for trading with Red China, and feeding her far hungrier and far more desperate people? Long before the young men in this audience...
...That Clear? While Barry Goldwater inveighed against Big Government at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Lyndon Johnson argued at Swarthmore that Big Government would achieve the "Great Society." At the President's next stop on the academic circuit, Holy Cross College, he offered the hope that science might "bypass the politics of the cold war." Lady Bird thought it more important to stress peace of another kind, and told Radcliffe seniors to "avoid a conscious war with men" and to use their brains to become "not a superwoman, but a total woman, a natural woman...
...handles most of the cotton that is exported. The Government is supposed to properly inspect the bales, but apparently its standards of classification and control are not sufficiently strict. Exporters buy the cotton from the Government, sometimes sell low grades at high-grade prices-and Washington does not stop them...
...filler. A folksy old lady called Aunt Martha, of Riverhead, Long Island, moans over "this creeping menace of real estate, these acres and acres of housing colonies, shopping centers, garish neon lights blazing all night long, and every other kind of desecration of beautiful Long Island." At nearly every stop across the country, Caldwell parks his rent-a-soapbox and rips off a little speech. In Birmingham the subject is integration, and the speech takes the form of a catechism (Q. "Will desegregation and integration produce a mulatto social system in the United States?" A. "Probably."). In Nacogdoches, Texas...