Word: support
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Edward Kennedy campaigned for Humphrey in Boston. Kennedy's brother-in-law Stephen Smith also offered to help. Senator George McGovern joined the Humphrey party in South Dakota. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership ratified George Meany's support and began an urgent, if belated drive to recapture the loyalty of unionists who have been drifting toward George Wallace. The United Auto Workers' liberal executive board-the least friendly labor group because of Walter Reuther's opposition to the war -formally endorsed Humphrey as well...
Artful Whitewash. Public opinion, nonetheless, continued overwhelmingly to support Hoover's view, which in turn reflected precisely the thoughts of Chi cago Mayor Richard Daley. The Mayor last week kept up his own counterbarrage to the "distortions" of the news media by broadcasting an hour-long documentary over 150 television sta tions throughout...
Into four days at Mavrino a dozen parallel lives are laid. The characters are borne along on the conveyor belts of terror. They are tormented by problems of conscience, and by the knowledge that if they make the morally right choice?to support a friend, to oppose a foolish order?they will be crushed in the machinery...
...inventions" with the purpose of "subverting the Soviet regime." Since then, an even more general law has been passed removing the need to prove subversive purpose. Sinyavsky got seven years' hard labor, Daniel five. Their judge later received the Order of Lenin. But petitions and letters in the writers' support were signed by hundreds of intellectuals...
...Soviet leaders may also hope to heal some of the deep splits among Eastern European nations by sounding alarms about neo-Nazism in West Germany. With the first planning session for its long-sought Communist summit scheduled to begin this week in Budapest, the Kremlin needs every bit of support it can muster from fellow Communist countries...