Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Taft had scrupulously avoided the race issue-despite Stokes's needling about his upper-crust background -some of the Republican's aides openly injected color into the campaign. Perhaps in response to this pressure, Stokes a month before election day blurted during a debate that if Taft won it would be purely because of bigotry on the part of Clevelanders...
...cast was brilliant. While Anne Bancroft (Regina) was playing for time, she looked like a panther who had faith in claws. A diabolical laugh ran through her voice whenever she gained the upper hand. And the times she lost control--my God, what a bitch...
Introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, the Senate's foremost dove, and co-sponsored by Georgia's Richard Russell, its most powerful hawk, the measure had wide backing, reflecting the upper body's atavistic yearning for a role it thinks it once had. If passed, the resolution would have been no more binding on the President than one asking Americans to be kind to dogs. It would nonetheless have been a rebuke to him, and this consideration swayed some members of the Fulbright committee last week...
Israel, he said, no longer recognizes Egyptian claims to the Gaza Strip or Jordan's claims to Arab Palestine, since both areas had been taken by the Arabs in 1949 "as the result of military aggression and occupation." Nor will the Golan Heights overlooking Upper Galilee be returned to Syria, whose guns had threatened "havoc and destruction for our villages in the valley." To ensure passage of Israeli shipping through the Strait of Tiran and the Suez Ca al, Israel also intends to maintain some sort of control over the Sinai Peninsu la-which, Eshkol suggested, might be turned...
Stanford Electrical Engineer Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., who considers himself almost as ardent a pacifist as his father, the famed former editor of the Nation, has long been engaged in secret work related to rocket propulsion and guidance in order to keep abreast of his main scholarly interest: upper-atmosphere engineering. "To know what is important in this field, you have to be in on the classified aspect of it," he says...