Word: opened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year in segregation-prone Tennessee, suddenly chose to attack the vital voting-rights heart of the bill with a crippling amendment. In the Judiciary Committee, Kefauver proposed an amendment that would change a would-be Negro voter's private hearing before the voting referee into a public hearing open to challenge by local officials. By the time civil rights partisans realized that this would gut the strongest part of the bill, Dixie Senators had rushed Kefauver's amendment through committee on a one-vote margin. (In the confusion, Colorado Democrat John Carroll voted with the Southerners...
...from Agitprop. This was the keynote of the second half of Khrushchev's tour de France. At times, Nikita seemed intent on establishing himself as a kind of honorary Frenchman. His family helped. Motherly Nina Khrushchev admired acres of stained-glass windows, trudged through an open-air market where she expertly sniffed at a proffered melon...
...nationalist elements, he refuses to license the regular party as a lawful political entity. In Basra, once a Communist citadel, authorities have jailed about 100 Communist labor leaders on charges of misappropriating union funds. Last week the Court of Cassation forbade the Communist-run Democratic Youth League permission to open new branches in Baghdad...
Flanked by Indonesia's peripatetic President Sukarno, Kassem watched from a special reviewing platform, but the crowd was not so large as in the Partisans' parade a year ago. In open distress, the Communist-line newspaper Al-Hadhara beseeched Kassem for support: "A few words from you will set everything right again." A year ago, the Communists would not have...
...Record. This month the association's graceful Fenimore House in Cooperstown, N.Y. will open an exhibition of 81 of the 175 paintings that Clark bought for the museum. Added to the museum's already extensive collection of Americana, this magpie's treasure gives a strangely touching glimpse into the often painful efforts of a young society to put itself on record. The show has its share of gentle snow scenes and of stiff little battles being fought by toylike soldiers...