Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...showdown for the deter mined rivals for power, lean, bearded Patrice Lumumba, 35, and roly-poly Joseph Kasavubu, 43. Before the crucial vote to choose the national leadership, the newly elected Deputies ranged widely through an array of foreign and domestic issues. One rose to complain that the Belgians had not provided delegates with cars ("It's a scandal that one of our Senate colleagues had to walk to work this morning!"). Another, wearing a kind of beanie with a beelike antenna, kept urging the legislators to mind their manners, hardly deterring the wag who cried periodically, "When...
...Hampshire and Los Angeles. Front Runner Jack Kennedy will have traveled an estimated 65,000 air miles, spent at least $700,000 and delivered 350 speeches-an exhausting pace even for a relatively young candidate, and a whopping bankroll even for a millionaire. Kennedy is not likely to complain, since seven primary campaigns have made him the best-known hopeful. But even if he wins the Democratic nomination, Kennedy will be no closer to Election Day than the halfway mark...
...shift overseas has raised a storm of protest at home. Some businessmen use it as an argument for higher tariffs; Chambers of Commerce often consider it downright "disloyal"; unions complain that it "exports" U.S. jobs, cuts employment. David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers, says: "Expansion is legitimate, but expansion at the expense of American workers is illegitimate...
Keep It Quiet. Though critics who praise the Post's news coverage often complain about the placidity of its editorial page, the Post supported the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, condemned Orval Faubus' stand in Little Rock. The Post's attitude is that it is best to do things quietly, reflecting its motto: "Let facts be submitted to a candid world." Says Mrs. Hobby: "State lines, national lines, rivers and oceans are no more than markings on a map. We want to give our readers the opportunity to know more about national and international problems...
...West Berlin constitutes a damning and unsettling contrast to the drabness of life in East Germany-a fact attested to by the 2,500,000 East German refugees who have poured into West Berlin in the last decade. Khrushchev is under pressure from his East German puppets, who complain in effect: "We cannot control these people forever unless something is done to eliminate the escape hatch that Berlin provides...