Word: suasion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol to a National Square before the White House. Crucial to the plan is the 75-ft. setback along the avenue's north side, which is already being redeveloped by the Government and private entrepreneurs. To keep the setback, Owings has had to deploy his considerable powers of suasion. When he learned that the FBI intended to build a new headquarters right out to the old sidewalk line, he called on J. Edgar Hoover, urged him to redesign the projected structure. After listening to Owings' impassioned plea, Hoover nodded agreement...
That was not all. The convention shouted through a resolution dismissing integration as a "failure" and urging that "black power replace assimilation and moral suasion as the dominant philosophy, theme and method of the movement"-in other words, that Negroes isolate themselves and seize power wherever they can. In a confidential memorandum distributed only to selected delegates, CORE also attacked American foreign policy, particularly the war in Viet Nam: "To support a war such as this, filled with conscious racism, is to support the racism on which it feeds. To support a war such as this is to support...
Grounds for Pride. The truth appears to be that Johnson, however adept at the arts of suasion and compromise, is ill at ease with persistent, complex issues that are not susceptible to activist solutions. Yet the President has good reason to be gratified. The burst of inflation that dismayed economists early this year, seems to have receded. Indeed, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor predicted last week that "unless there is a drastic change, there will be no new tax in this session of Congress" (though that qualified forecast was later hedged even more by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler...
...called the Golden Nugget in suburban Los Angeles. There, the cops spied ex-Dancer Jeanne, 36, modeling the lower half of a leopardskin bikini without the upper half. Distressed, they arrested the Davises for violating Section 650½ of the state penal code, a catchall law for moral suasion that forbids any act "which openly outrages public decency." Fined $276 and put on three years' probation, the Davises carried their case to a three-judge panel of California's Second District Court of Appeal, which last week issued a learned 47-page opinion voiding Section...
Most Sensitive Point. Amnesty's weapons are moral suasion strengthened with a potent brew of publicity. This is the kind of pressure, says President Peter Benenson, 45, that hits totalitarian regimes at their "most sensitive point, their public image, their trade image, their tourist image." By publicizing Belov in the British press, Amnesty forced the Russians to acknowledge his fate. Izvestia accused Amnesty of "presumption and arrogance in suggesting that a Western psychiatrist" be allowed to examine the prisoner...