Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what he thought had to be done. He promised the stricken family any help that the Government could provide, appointed a commission to study the causes of violence, and called, in the most vigorous language at his command, for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns-a trade, as he observed, that makes instruments of death as readily purchasable as baskets of fruit or cartons of cigarettes. Almost as he spoke, Congress sent him a crime bill with a gun-control section, but the measure was so flabby as to be almost as scandalous as the lack...
...carries violence within itself." Russian Poet Evgeny Evtushenko warned: "You're firing at yourself, America. If you go on, you'll really kill yourself." Hanoi had a particular worry, reflecting its view of Kennedy as a man determined to halt the war. "American imperialism," said North Vietnamese Trade Leader Hoang Quog Viet, will now "run berserk on the battlefields of Viet Nam" as a result of the shooting...
...students, a petition for a Negro history course drew 1,800 student signers. The course will be taught by Sociologist-Historian Henry Allen Bullock. He intends to examine the Negro's origin in Africa and the clashes of African and European cultures, study the impact of the slave trade on the Caribbean and the U.S. South, and trace the development of segregation...
Meanwhile, the council stays divided, and Ralph J. Dunphy remains in the City Manager's office. Last week, he asked for an appropriation of $100 for medical expenses of his office. One councillor--a pharmacist by trade--suggested that the money would go to Bufferin. His colleagues laughed, but not too heartily, for they knew the headaches that Cambridge politics can bring.John G. ShortA meeting of the City Council...
Revenues last year reached $15 million, but Abu-Haidar needs even more money if he is to fulfill his dream of a round-the-world cargo route. The run would include Los Angeles and New York; to get landing rights in those cities, Abu-Haidar would make a trade that would let Pan American bring its all-cargo service into Beirut. "If they don't agree," smiles Abu-Haidar, "there might be a certain delay in Pan Am's plans as far as Beirut is concerned...