Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article by Steven V. Roberts on July 5, "The Civil Rights Bill," you claim that continuation of massive public demonstrations by Negro action groups "might well destroy all hope for any sort of meaningful legislation." Although I agree that violence in Washington would be self-defeating, I would remind you that such organized protest represents the civil rights package's raison d'etre. Furthermore, I would submet that such organizations as the N.A.A.C.P. and C.O.R.E. must maintain the momentum of the crisis psychology...
What makes a perfect king? Shakespeare gave us his answer in Henry V. This play caps a four-part study of kingship in which we have portraits of three successive monarchs. In Richard II the playwright showed us a tragic and complex incompetent; in the two parts of Henry IV we have a competent king who cannot surmount the unlawful manner he secured the crown...
...dead-killed in other wars." Shaken, he returned to his senior year in law school, helped start Yale's America First chapter ("I thought it would be beneficial to our people"). But when isolationism became a dead issue, he was an early volunteer for the Navy's V-7 program...
...Angeles Angels for refusing to report to their Hawaii farm team, Bo suddenly called the whole thing off. "Maybe he was jealous of my curves," sniffed Mamie. Maybe, but Belinsky was tossing strikes with Delaware's nifty Ricky D. E. du Pont, fortyish, widow of Millionaire Francis V. du Pont. Her new beau, she allows, is "a thorough gentleman." Bo says they are just friends, and adds that he is ready to play ball in Hawaii after all-unless he and Ricky decide to buy a nightclub together...
...hard drinks. The government-owned European airlines, many of them losing money on the run, are expected to howl, but Trippe argues that they would actually increase profits by packing in passengers where galleys used to be. On a Boeing 707, thrift class would carry up to 189 passengers, v. 125 for mixed first and economy class...