Word: setbacks
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...humiliating Administration setback. Far from making Republicans look bad, the President had merely succeeded in losing-despite lopsided Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate...
Perjhaps the biggest setback the students was at a special, closed meeting of State officials and top leaders of the C. Goldmark '62, chairman of Tocsin, the conference at State "one of the most experiences of my life. Our reaction of amazement...
...which, under Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, has been a graveyard for civil rights legislation. They hoped instead to have it referred to Mansfield's Senate Rules Committee. But Vice President Lyndon Johnson, advised by the Senate parliamentarian, ruled that it had to go to Judiciary. The setback will be only temporary, Mansfield promised. If the Judiciary Committee does not act within 90 days, he will attach his proposal as an amendment to unrelated legislation...
...ultraconservative anti-Communist leaders, Schwarz does not argue that domestic softness is the only thing Americans need worry about. Schwarz stresses the external threat and power of Communism. Sometimes he overrates the Reds: to read or hear Schwarz, the Communists have never suffered a setback in their march toward world domination; the free world has never scored the slightest cold war success. Communism is a monolith without internal dissension. Nikita Khrushchev, while describing Stalin as a sadistic, megalomaniacal murderer, in his famous January 6, 1961 speech, was by Communist standards of virtue commending his old boss, not condemning him. Today...
Last week the trustbusters got a setback in Philadelphia. Federal District Judge Thomas J. Clary approved the merger. Instead of restraining competition, said he, "the larger bank will be able to compete on better terms with banks of other cities and states that have been draining this area of banking business." (Big Philadelphia companies often have to go to New York or Chicago to find one bank large enough to finance their expansion plans.) Merging banks in other cities can now be expected to cite that opinion...