Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glad that the ten black writers who responded to William Styron's Nat Turner [July 12] weren't around when Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. If this novel had been repressed because of stock characters and a failure to understand the Negro character, I don't know what would have happened to the abolition movement...
...peace offensive over Viet Nam preceded the two-day Honolulu conference. Before leaving for a war tour a fortnight ago, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford gave many the impression that he might seek South Vietnamese approval for a full halt to U.S. bombing of the North. Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy hinted that a bombing pause would indeed be a key issue at Hawaii. Cyrus Vance, No. 2 man on the Paris negotiating team, emphasized the recent lull in fighting around Saigon, feeding speculation that it might prove to be the reciprocal gesture the U.S. has long demanded from Hanoi...
...late William Parker, Reddin's predecessor, was the epitome of the police professional, a crusty authoritarian who had little truck with sociological theories. Taking over a scandal-tainted force in 1950, Parker made it as honest as any in the nation, boosting standards, competence and morale, and giving the L.A. police a paramilitary esprit. He did not, however, understand the new problems caused by the postwar influx of Mexican-Americans and Negroes. For several years before his death in 1966, the once progressive department stagnated as the ailing chief's ideas congealed into dogma and he labored to surround...
...wait long. He made sergeant in 1945, lieutenant in 1949, captain in 1953. After he was made deputy chief in 1960, he revamped the department's record-keeping system, modernized communications, and set up new cost-accounting methods. More and more, he began to speak for ailing Chief William Parker...
...reformers later rejected the Zionist notion that the only home for the Jew is Israel, arguing that Zion is anywhere a Jew prays. But because of the need of a national home for Hitler's victims, Reform Jews came to accept Israel. Says Rabbi William Rosenthall, the World Union's executive director...