Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they could not endorse a principle that may encourage anarchy. They suggested that a law should be obeyed, even if it may be unconstitutional, until a few citizens test the issue in the courts. Among the six commissioners who disagreed was Patricia Roberts Harris,* former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. Mrs. Harris, a Negro, pointed out that blacks would have made little progress if they had relied on lawful tactics alone. "A nation whose history enshrines the civil disobedience of the Boston Tea Party," she said, "cannot fail to recognize at least the symbolic merit of demonstrated hostility to unjust...
...business of the "kings"-in reality the President of France, the Chancellor of West Germany and the Premiers of Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-is to determine how badly they want this economic union to endure and what they should do to revive its impetus. There was a great air of uncertainty over the direction the talks would take. As he processed credentials for the 500 newsmen attracted by the spectacle, one Dutch official wryly inquired last week: "Is it to be a burial or a revival...
Explaining the choice of G. E. as a target, Charles Simmons, M. I. T. student and member of both Rosa Luxembourg-SDS and the November Action Committee, said. "By working at this time, they [the recruiters] are hurting the striking workers...
Breakthrough. Brancusi's early work, never before seen in the U.S., is the most surprising part of the current exhibition. In Paris he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited such accomplished work at the Musée Luxembourg that Rodin invited him to work in his studio. Brancusi refused. "Nothing grows well in the shadow of a big tree," he said, and spent the next two years working in virtual isolation. His last work in a traditional mode is the tender portrait head, Torment. Then, in 1907, he made the great break with the past that...
...along with veteran French Politicians Antoine Pinay and Maurice Faure and dozens of other ranking European statesmen. Together, they constitute a sort of European shadow government. They had come to Brussels in an attempt to spur Common Market bureaucrats and the respective ministers of the Six (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany) to start immediate negotiations to admit Britain to the economic community...