Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week long Richard Nixon basked joyfully in the returns from the most important speech of his presidency, the televised address to his fellow citizens on the problems of war and peace in Viet Nam. There was a flood of congratulatory telegrams that he cheerfully displayed for photographers, a quickie Gallup telephone poll after the speech that showed a 77% favorable response, and a firm consensus of politicians and pundits that Nixon had achieved what he set out to do. At the same time, protesters against the war, unmollified by Nixon's blandishments, readied for this week's demonstrations...
...effect, as Eugene McCarthy observes, Agnew is acting as "Nixon's Nixon." Just before the 1954 congressional elections, Richard Nixon said: "Ninety-five percent of the Communists, fellow travelers, sex perverts, dope addicts, drunks and other security risks removed under the Eisenhower security program" were hired under Harry Truman. Now Agnew is out walking the point, flailing at "ideological eunuchs," "merchants of hate," "parasites of passion" and campus protesters who "take their tactics from Castro and their money from Daddy...
...plan, the all-Navy crew will ride the nautically named Yankee Clipper into moon orbit after 83 hours in space. Then Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, and Space Rookie Alan Bean, 37, will board the module Intrepid for their trip to the moon's surface. While his fellow astronauts explore the Sea of Storms 69 miles below, Gemini Veteran Richard F. Gordon Jr., 40, will spend a lonely day and a half in orbit...
...order, which set guidelines for carrying out the Supreme Court directive of the week before, was issued by Bell, a Georgian, and two fellow Southerners on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. It made it clear that the time for litigation had run out and promised a period of painful readjustment in the Mississippi schools. It also constituted a major rebuke for the Nixon Administration's kid-glove policy toward segregation. "You can complain and feel bad," Bell told local school officials, "but there's nothing you can do about...
Several of the CCA-endorsed candi-dates enjoyed substantial bases of support of their own outside the CCA strongholds among academic and middle-class voters, Coates, for example, polled well among his fellow blacks, while Fantini-whose brother unsuccessfully ran for School Committee in 1967 as an independent-received a large portion of his votes from Italian East Cambridge, where most CCA candidates do poorly...