Word: outburst
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What brought on Nixon's strident outburst was a physical assault on his campaign motorcade in San Jose, Calif., during the closing week of the campaign. It was an attack that came dangerously close to disaster, but it played perfectly into the President's political hands. Throughout the campaign, Nixon and Vice President Agnew have tried to win Republican votes through popular resentment against extremist-and sometimes not so extremist-dissidents. At times, small groups of hecklers were deliberately allowed into his audiences, just numerous and noisy enough to enable Nixon to score the points he wanted...
...This was no outburst by a single individual," President Nixon said in a quickly issued statement. "This was the action of an unruly mob that represents the worst in America." Nixon went on the offensive the following evening at a rally in Anaheim, Calif., which was broadcast on national television by the Republican National Committee at a cost of $48,000. "We must recognize," he said, "that in a system that provides a method for peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies resort to violence or lawlessness in the United States of America...
...people who had played any role in the grand jury investigations to maintain complete public silence about the case. He said later he did not think he would be quoted by name, and suggested that he had been misquoted, although he did not say in what way. His bitter outburst brought a deliberately contemptuous statement from one of the most respected figures on the Kent State campus, Geology Professor Glenn W. Frank. In testimony given before the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, headed by William Scranton, Frank had expressed his abhorrence of student violence in strong terms. Within...
...middle of the night, electrically controlled garage doors in a number of Western states suddenly begin to open and close. At Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, an outburst of strange signals starts disrupting communications with an orbiting Gemini spaceship. High above the Gulf of Mexico, the navigational gear of a jetliner bound for Miami mysteriously indicates that the plane is on a course for Cuba. Is a modern-day poltergeist on the loose? Not really. These baffling occurrences are, in fact, examples of a serious problem of the Electronic Age. As ever larger numbers of electronic gadgets come into...
Long before the City College outburst, Bowker proved his agility in New York's political jungle. During one power struggle with the board, he coolly resigned, taking two C.U.N.Y. college presidents with him until the trustees capitulated. The graduate studies improved apace: C.U.N.Y. now enrolls 28,500 graduate students. Partially because of pressure from two teachers' unions, salaries rose to $11,960 for instructors and to $29,800 for full professors. A few prestigious scholars, like Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., pull down $50,000, compared with Bowker...