Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson campaign was launched in August, when New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy looked like a threat. Ruefully, a presidential aide recalled how L.B.J. had topped Bobby by a mere 4,000 write-in votes in the 1964 preferential primary, and he was determined to prevent a repetition. Bernard Boutin, who masterminded Estes Kefauver's successful New Hampshire campaign in 1956 and John Kennedy's in 1960, quit as Small Business Administrator in midsummer, soon thereafter surfaced in Nashua, where he is heading a similar effort for L.B.J. When Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy entered...
...Harvard freshman team has also been invited to the Carnival for the first time. Three top Western skiers--Steve Bainbridge, Jay O'Rear and Allen Waston--could pose a threat to varsity racers, although their times cannot be computed in Harvard's official standings...
Peretz's proposal would call on President Pusey to "refuse the use of Harvard facilities to military personnel for recruitment as long as the threat to our students by General Hershey is not lifted...
Order or Repression. "A Government of unprecedented power," he said, "appears to be impotent in the face of the threat of social disintegration and the promise of social justice." By wintertime, when it appeared certain that his department would not get anything like the money he thought it needed, Gardner seemed convinced that neither the President nor the nation had the will to respond. "No society," he said at year's end, "can live in constant tumult. We will have either a civil order in which discipline is internalized in the breast of each free and responsible citizen...
Familiar Aim. To meet the threat to Khe Sanh, General William Westmoreland has built up the base's garrison to more than 5,000 Marines in a hasty airlift of troops and equipment that suspended all civilian air traffic throughout Viet Nam. Other allied units shifted nearer the scene of the impending battle to be ready if needed, including a 1st Cavalry (airmobile) brigade helicoptered to Phu Bai, only 45 minutes' flying time from Khe Sanh. For what looked more and more like the first classic conventional battle on a major scale of the Viet Nam war, Westmoreland...