Word: rifted
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Because of this separation, the values taught in school are often not the values of the student's community. Negro demands for teaching more Negro history--and in some cases their demands that their children be called by their black muslim names--reveal the seriousness of the rift in today's ghettoes...
...Emanu-El resigned from the union during a dispute over elections to the U.A.H.C. board. A compromise brought the temple back into the fold later; Reform leaders doubt that the present rift can be easily healed...
Died. Lyle C. Wilson, 67, longtime Washington bureau manager and vice president (1953-64) of United Press International, who in 40 years as a solid, sensible newsman counted as his finest hour the time in 1939 when he refused to kill a story on a rift between F.D.R. and Secretary of State Cordell Hull; of heart disease; in Stuart, Fla. As Wilson recalled it, F.D.R. threatened a feud that would "hurt U.P. and hurt you"-to which Wilson shot back: "What would hurt us even more is if word got around that you said to kill a story...
...gossips to worry about, what with her husband traipsing off to Tokyo and New York and the newspapers printing rumors about a rift in the family. He had the critics to worry about, what with tackling Shakespeare on screen tor the first time-and with his wife as a costar. So Actor Richard Burton asked the obvious question when he encountered Princess Margaret at the London première of The Taming of the Shrew: "Are you as nervous as I am?" She sure was, said Meg. She was ready to bet on it. Burton was more than willing...
Talk of the subterranean rift within the Administration was so persistent that both McNamara and Rusk decided to issue statements at week's end denying that any such differences existed. Despite "the apparent divergence of opinion" between him and Rusk, said McNamara at a hastily convened news conference, the Administration is completely united in its support of the bombings. Rumors of discord were "amusing," McNamara declared, maintaining that over the past two years he could not "recall a single instance when the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense have differed on bombing policy." Echoing McNamara, Rusk called their...