Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once, from Washington, Pasadena, Beirut, the Jordanian village of Taiyiba and the loose tongue of Mayor Yorty, the life and bad times of the accused assassin,* Sol Sirhan, came into view. The middle-class Christian Arab family had lived in Jerusalem while Palestine was under British mandate, and the father, Bishara Salameh Sirhan, now 52, was a waterworks employee. The first Arab-Israeli war cost the elder Sirhan his job. Family life was contentious, but young Sirhan Sirhan did well at the Lutheran Evangelical School. (The family was Greek Orthodox, but also associated with other religious groups...
...taken to minimize the danger. For one thing, TV ought to be used more effectively-and at public expense to avoid domination by the richest candidates. Why not devote national network time to each major candidate for a full day or even two? For once, voters could view the whole man instead of fleeting images. On a more practical level, security can be sharply improved. Had the Secret Service been guarding Kennedy last week-as it will guard presidential candidates from now on-the route through the Ambassador Hotel's serving kitchen would have been scouted and secured...
Even in the best of times, nations tend to view one another in caricature and stereotype. Riots, assassinations and Viet Nam have all contributed, justly or unjustly, to an image of an increasingly violent U.S. in the eyes of much of the world. In the first few hours after the shooting of Robert Kennedy, the outpouring of shock and sorrow from the public figures and press of the world expressed considerably more than the simple hope for Kennedy's survival. Much of it consisted of messages addressed to the American people and American society that said, in effect...
After the entrance of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the withdrawal of Lyndon Johnson from the Presidential race, however, Harvard began to lapse back into its traditional view of politics...
...founders, Lloyd Rowdin of MIT and Martin Meyerson of Harvard, modeled the Center after traditional research centers in other fields--with the fundamental view that you can do urban research the same way as other research. The analogy stemmed at least partly from a desire to prove "legitimate" a field of research which was not at the time entirely respectable...