Word: wide
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Cozy Clubbers. To put together a majority against Halleck, Jerry Ford will have to win support from a wide variety of Republicans, ranging from deep-dyed conservatives who happen to have a grudge against Charlie, to members of the relatively liberal Wednesday Club (so called because the group usually meets on Wednesday afternoons). The Wednesday Clubbers so far are being cozy about supporting Ford in hopes of winning pledges from him to give them preferred committee assignments when and if he beats Halleck...
...course, is what kind of a treaty the U.S. can write for control, operation and defense of a new canal. The Panama Canal made Panama a nation. Yet for years Panamanians have railed against the 1903 treaty, which gives the U.S. "sovereignty in perpetuity" over the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone, demanding a bigger share of the revenues, and more control of both the canal and the zone. Last January's anti-Yankee riots, which left 26 dead (including three U.S. G.l.s) showed how deep the passions go. The U.S., as Johnson said last week, is now willing...
...lectures called "The New Reformation?," Robinson argues that when its basic truths are at stake, Christianity should preserve an agnostic silence about certain doctrines-heaven and hell, for example, or the devil and the angels-since "these cannot be painted with the assurance or the detail on the wide canvases beloved of our forefathers...
...continue, the child should be immersed in cold tap water, flat on his back, so that only his mouth, nose, eyes and untrimmed umbilical cord are out of the water. The baby's blood may be cooled as low as 68°F. If the procedure ever wins wide U.S. approval, chilling might be helpful for several thousand babies a year who would otherwise die or be doomed to live with damaged brains...
Howard Zinn, associate professor of Government at B.U., who also signed the letter, said that the huge mandate given Johnson in the recent election should "make it clear that he can proceed without fear" in pushing the Civil Rights movement. There is a wide-spread apprehension that Johnson will ignore the Challenge in an effort to preserve peace in the Congressional ranks...