Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that winter, isolationist feeling was substantially weaker than it had been a year before. A CRIMSON poll in February showed that 51 per cent of undergraduates opposed involvement but most thought it inevitable in any case. Aid-to Britain and anti-war rallies competed for attention...
Aura of Hysteria. Winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer last winter, McKissick, 44, has lately steered his civil rights outfit, a leader in the movement in the '60s, away from gradual integration toward aggressive Desegregation Now. Almost all white members and most Negro moderates have either resigned or been nudged out of national policymaking positions. Opposition to the war in Viet Nam has reached a hysteria, and CORE leaders have come close to damning any cooperation with whites-as McKissick did during his meeting with the two Baltimore officials...
...officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville Air Force Base by local Negroes last winter...
...typical flight, earn $15,000 per trip-an operating profit of 55%. Even such heavily subsidized national airlines as Alitalia and KLM, which spend lavishly for high-rent offices and other promotion, can earn about $7,000 per flight during the summer, though slower sales in winter put some of them...
Edward Heath, Tory leader of Great Britain's House of Commons, will deliver next year's Godkin Lectures. He has tennely accepted an invitation from the Graduate School of Public Administration to come to Harvard for the three-lectures series sometime next winter...