Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Absolutely Inconceivable." Dr. Marjorie Shearon, a vehement anti-Communist from Chevy Chase, Md., appeared as an unsolicited committee witness, declared that Fortas was once a member of the left-wing International Juridical Association, that "he has been significantly connected with Communists and Communist fronts over a considerable period of time," and that "his connections were neither trivial nor casual-and I doubt if they were innocent." Fortas replied that he may have joined the group while he was on the Yale faculty in the 1930s because "joining was easy in those days." But "to the best of my knowledge...
...long since captured Japan's 10 million-member Gensuikyo, its Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (which nonetheless lost considerable support with the advent of Red China as a nuclear power). Though India's 160,000-member Communist Party is split down the middle, the pro-Chinese wing holds the psychological whip hand, having won 40 seats in this year's Kerala state election to only three for the Muscovite wing. The victory was doubly impressive, since there has been virulent anti-Chinese feeling in India since the 1962 invasion...
...time came for balloting at the end of the debate. When Parliament convened for the debate, in which Novas had promised to reveal the iniquities of Papandreou's 17 months in office, Papandreou simply ordered his supporters to stay in an anteroom. The infuriated leader of the right-wing Na tional Radical Union, whose 99 Deputies were ready to vote for Novas, an nounced that unless Papandreou sent his men into the chamber his own party would also boycott the debate...
...Professional Decision. Whoever wins will almost surely give the party its first youthful look in decades; the two prime contenders are Reginald Maudling, 48, and Edward Heath, 49. A half dozen other Tories, from the coldly brilliant, right-wing Enoch Powell to the pugnaciously independent Peter Thorneycroft, are given dark horse chances...
...conservative Defense Minister wanted to investigate Aspida's leftists further, but Premier Papandreou said no. Instead, he named two colonels from the K.Y.P. to purge right-wing army leadership, which he indicated he suspected of plotting a coup against him. Garoufalias crisply refused to take his orders from the two colonels, and so Papandreou decided that Garoufalias...