Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know quite what to say," stammered Bobby Kennedy. Said McCarthy: "I think I'm surprised." Former G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon declared: "I do not recall a more momentous event of this kind in our entire history." Barry Goldwater had a more down-to-earth reaction. "I went and had another drink," he said. "I just couldn't believe my ears." Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen bitterly noted that the "personal and sometimes ugly" criticism of the President by his fellow Democrats helped drive him to his decision. Said Dirksen: "The harpies of the shore shall pluck the eagle...
That night he went to bed early, for the first time in memory did not bother to wade through his thick stack of night reading, even overslept the next morning. Relaxed, almost jaunty, he told a group at the Department of Agriculture: "I am a Hereford breeder. I sell registered calves. I am going to have a lot of time to work on it pretty soon...
Last year the Johnson Administration considered a partial pause-exempting the area north of the 20th parallel from bombardment-but military advice went against it. In subsequent testimony before the Senate's Preparedness Investigation Subcommittee, General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that he and his colleagues had "concluded unanimously that the concept was erroneous." There was no indication that the generals had changed their minds this year, and until recently it looked as if Johnson agreed with them. On Feb. 1, he depicted a grim situation if the U.S. stopped bombing: "The enemy force...
...There is no national problem," says President Arthur Costa e Silva, "that is not linked indissolubly to education." Last week Costa received unwanted backing for that view. In the most violent wave of demonstrations since the army seized power in 1964, Brazil's high school and university students went on an angry rampage throughout most of the country. In Rio de Janeiro, thousands of students boiled through downtown streets, chanting antigovernment slogans and taunting police. By midweek, the demonstrations had spread to nearly all of the country's 22 states. Schools and universities were closed down...
Though Lima's death detonated the violence, the underlying causes went much deeper. They centered on rising student impatience with Costa's failure to deliver on his inaugural promises of a year ago and ease Brazil's staggering problems of education. Despite assurances that he would "multiply the opportunities of education for all," the country's 41 universities remain rundown, ill-equipped and grossly understaffed; for lack of space, two qualified university applicants must be turned away for every one accepted. Costa is also spending only 7.7% of the national budget on education...