Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When does a daily newspaper, even with the best of intentions, have a right to suppress a major news story in its own backyard? Nowhere was this question more heatedly debated last week than in the city rooms and among the readers of Houston's three newspapers: the Post, the Chronicle, and the Press. The issue involved the toughest problem facing the U.S.'s largest segregated city: integration...
These two men of towering stature, chiefs of states that have been ancient enemies, were constructing a new and united Europe. The communique was noncommittal, but spokesmen of both sides talked like men who could barely suppress their excitement. The French spokesman talked of decisions on "the new political construction of Europe," revealed that among the decisions was a plan for regular meetings of the heads of government of all six Common Market countries to formulate a common foreign policy, consult on other integrated programs...
Public prayer at civic functions is permissible only if it is doctrinally uncompromised. "Our national habit of utilizing prayer as a sort of ecclesiastical garnish to all manner of secular dishes ought to make the church circumspect." No prayer should suppress "the cardinal fact that access to God is by Jesus Christ and by him alone. To portray God, in prayer, as the good-natured old man accessible to all on any terms is to bely the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ...
...stir talk that he was contemplating a "blitz" of the type that Wendell Willkie brought off at the Republican Convention in 1940. Rockefeller encouraged the rumors by inviting all 2,662 convention delegates and alternates to a dance this week at the Sheraton-Towers. And he did nothing to suppress the busy draft-Rockefeller movement organized by San Francisco Lawyer William M. Brinton?not even when Brinton put out a Nixon-can't-win-in-November poll showing Nixon lagging far behind Kennedy in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and Texas...
Next, Khrushchev's rhetorical indignation was trained on the Congo. "It is not only Belgium, it is NATO," he shouted, "that is dispatching troops to suppress the people of the Congo by force, on the pretext of alleged disorder. This is an attempt to reduce them to colonial status again...