Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordering the development of MOL at this time, however, McNamara has further confused the very basic question of American priorities in space development and research. There are strong suggestions that the Pentagon made an apparently wise decision for entirely inappropriate reasons...
...resident suggested that all-night apartment sign-out were not "wise procedure." Another said that such sign-outs by upperclassmen could have "a strong effect on freshmen." Since the administration made no policy covering the situation last year, one resident said, girls "assumed that the college didn't care." But, he emphasized, "the college does care...
Died. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, 70, ardent Zionist, since 1917 leader of The Temple in Cleveland, one of the nation's largest Reformed Jewish congregations, a fifth-generation rabbi who with Rabbi Stephen Wise in 1943 organized the lobby that was instrumental in persuading Congress in 1945 to declare in favor of a Jewish national home, later presented the case for Palestinian partition before the U.N., in 1948 was pleased to see the creation of Israel itself; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...Farge became interested in the problems of the Negro when assigned in 1911 to rural Maryland, from then on waged a relentless campaign for racial equality in books and articles, stumped for a federal FEPC, helped found the 60 Catholic Interracial Councils, described it all in 1954 in a wise and delightfully understated autobiography, The Manner Is Ordinary...
...hour (a gesture normally reserved for deaths in the royal family), Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said: "There are times when the mind and the heart stand still." From Sir Winston Churchill came a statement: "This mon strous act has taken from us a great statesman and a wise and valiant...