Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost limitless. "I don't know of a city that is not facing a serious problem today," he said. "There are 30 to 40 cities with the same frustrations, the same tensions that need only some unpredictable event to set them off." He dismissed the idea that left-wing agitators are responsible for the riots but conceded that they lose no time in joining them. The riots "were indeed fomented by agitators," said the Attorney General, "agitators named disease and despair, joblessness and hopelessness, rat-infested housing and long-impacted cynicism." Further complicating the problem is the fact, said...
...recent victories of a few conservatives in primaries across the country have led right-wing ideologues to the happy conclusion that the Goldwater defeat in 1964 represents not the popular repudiation of an aberration, but rather the start of a sweeping conservative trend. Yet public opinion studies as well as the strategies being followed by many G.O.P. leaders across the country indicate something quite different. If anything, the voters are uneasy and desire a brief period of retrenchment; and they are often sympathetic to the candidacies of men hoping to topple leaders seeking to extend their tenure and progressive policies...
...television prime time to praise "my friend Ho Chi Minh" for canceling war-crimes trials of American pilots in Hanoi. It sounded as if the 66-year-old baron, Interior Minister in President Charles de Gaulle's first postwar Cabinet and a leader of Gaullism's left wing today, just might be echoing his master's loudly repeated opposition to U.S. policy in Viet...
...recess, and the hands on the House clock were moving close to 10 p.m., the hour for the final vote on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's drastic bill to freeze wages and prices. Wilson knew that he would win. But he also knew that some two dozen left-wing Laborites were certain to abstain in protest against his tactics in steamrollering the bill through Commons...
More Shifts? On a lower Cabinet level, Richard Grossman, a favorite of Labor's rebellious left wing, moved from Housing to Leader of the House, a position that will make him responsible for corralling the rebel Laborites, whose abstentions have been embarrassing to the Prime Minister. The former Leader of the House, Herbert Bowden, moved to the Ministry for Commonwealth Affairs, replacing Arthur Bottomley, whose inability to settle the Rhodesian crisis made him some thing of a liability. Still, Bottomley was not expelled from the Cabinet; instead he was shifted to the Ministry for Overseas Development, a post that...