Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter accuses America of widening the war without legitimate cause. It claims that the U.S. is becoming increasingly unpopular everywhere in Southeast Asia...
...numerous films about the martyred Maid of Orleans have contributed very little to art and less to the box office. The subject thus seems a natural for French Director Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket), who for more than two decades has been making austere, praiseworthy, but unpopular movies. Bresson's treatment of the Trial of Joan is characteristically ascetic; but it is also quintessential history, unique and timeless, graced with a master's touch...
...third in as many years. All this could have been expected to bring joy to the Conservative Party, which Pearson defeated in 1963. What it brought was a twanging in another set of rusty wires. Many Conservatives feel that former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 69, is too unpopular to lead them to election victory. They are pressing for a party caucus before Parliament convenes Feb. 16 to pick a new leader. Diefenbaker, after eight years of leadership, shows no inclination to fade quietly away. "I am not a reed," he says. "I do not bend." But he might be broken...
Even this was unpopular. Fortnight ago, at what was intended to be an off-the-record background meeting with foreign correspondents, Dean Rusk suggested that the Germans might really be the last to want fresh negotiations with the Russians, since this would inevitably involve discussion of West Germany's role in NATO and the future boundaries of a united Germany. Cruelly accurate, Rusk's words touched off a storm. In Bonn, the Free Democrats' Bundestag Vice President Thomas Dehler warned that Germany was being "sacrificed" to Atlantic policy. Christian Democrat Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel cried that Germany...
...obvious solution to the housing shortage would seem to be high-rise apartments. But this is unpopular in earthquake-scarred Japan, and the average height of Tokyo buildings remains 1.7 stories. Premier Sato hopes eventually to ease the claustrophobic crush by building new cities, filling in land around old ones. As a start, his agents are out combing the countryside for farmers willing to sell out for new housing, but the bargaining is tough. "In the final hours of negotiations," admits one agent, "we almost always end up hoisting the Rising Sun and appealing to the farmer to sell...