Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barricaded buildings of Rome University to Britain's Porton Down Microbiological Research Center, the protests of those revolutionaries continued to agitate Western Europe last week. British students held a lie-in demonstration at the chemical center, also shoved their way past campus "bulldog" proctors to demand, and win, the right to distribute freely pamphlets at Oxford. In Rome, where they began their protest by setting fire to an effigy of Charles de Gaulle, some 2,000 students held the campus until moderate students, anxious to finish exams, and armed police stormed it. The Italian Communist Party, through Theoretician Giorgio...
After the war, Randolph developed into a cantankerous, litigious gadfly who showed Churchillian propensities for good drink and ridicule, but lacked his father's offsetting attributes of literary genius and intellectual brilliance. He failed in three more attempts to win a seat in Parliament, cranked out nine undistinguished books, and wrote numerous newspaper columns in which he vented his wrath on Americans, British politicians and the Fleet Street press lords. "I'm a naughty tease," he explained. "I like to attack rich and powerful people." The London Observer mused that he was "dangerously over-inflated with...
Imperial Manner. In Harper's, Novelist Merle Miller (Only You, Dick Darling!) concentrates on the Alsop personality. He quotes anonymous Washington sources to the effect that Alsop has become obsessed with Viet Nam. When Bobby Kennedy made a speech saying that the U.S. couldn't win in Viet Nam, Alsop, writes Miller, called the Senator's office three times to denounce him as a "traitor" to his country. To win in Viet Nam, Alsop is even willing to use what he calls "Mr. Big"-the atom bomb-Miller says. "Friends call the Alsop manner imperial," sums...
...events in the Viet Nam war, and promised not to get trapped into making such predictions again. But he stuck to his guns on the progress of the war. "We'll see who was overoptimistic about Viet Nam when the war is over," he insists. "If we win, I shall have been a lot more right than most people, despite my mistakes. If we lose, I shall have been wrong-dead wrong. The outcome will show who has judged best...
...bargaining aim of the United Steelworkers of America, said President I. W. Abel last week, is to win "what people need in order to live." Steelworkers, like everybody else in these inflationary times, seem to need more and more. As his union, whose contract expires July 31, formally opened negotiations in Manhattan with eleven major steel producers, Abel's effort confronted the U.S. with the threat of its first nationwide steel strike since...