Word: expressing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nixon's Silent Majority may be bewildered and unenthusiastic about Cambodia, but the demonstrations are moving its members to rally behind the President. Many of them argue that "the President knows all the facts?he must know what he is doing." Even more of them express frank hostility toward the students. Says a Chicago ad salesman: "I'm getting to feel like I'd actually enjoy going out and shooting some of these people. I'm just so goddamned mad. They're trying to destroy everything I've worked for?for myself, my wife and my children...
...Cricketer Freddie Trueman to bowl eggs before the thrilled pupils at Carr Mill. With stumps set up for added authenticity, Trueman sent one egg after another whizzing down the cricket pitch at 90 m.p.h. Remarkably, only a few broke. To keep up with its Fleet Street competitor, the Daily Express hired a Piper Aztec to drop five dozen eggs at 150 m.p.h., dive-bombing over an airfield near Carr Mill. Three dozen remained unbroken, leading the school's headmaster to remark: "The ancestor of the hen is believed to have laid its eggs in flight...
...time of economic uneasiness, social turbulence and foreign war, the nation's top businessmen still express confidence in President Nixon, but that confidence is wearing thin in several critical areas of policy. While business leaders approve of the President's economic policies in general, they fault him on several specifics. Their most pressing concern is inflation. On the broader issues, they back Nixon on the war in Viet Nam but show some misgivings over Laos and Cambodia and disapprove of his handling of student dissent. Their opinions could presage a wavering of business support for Nixon...
...Washburn University in Topeka. Kan., plans were announced for a "College Appreciation Day" to express thanks for education. The Vermont Federation of Young College Republicans announced yesterday that they "totally oppose" the national student strike...
...Harvard lobbying group was joined at its mid-morning session in the Senate Office Building and at the Cleveland Park Congregational Church meeting Friday evening by several members of a smaller group of Harvard professors who had spent the day meeting with Presidential advisors and Senators to express their personal horror at the escalation...