Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are still many ugly pockets of resistance. The South still accedes to Negro demands reluctantly, surrendering only token bits and pieces. But a majority of Southerners are now resigned to the irrevocable fact that the Negro's demands must be granted under the Constitution. Only a handful of Southerners cling to the illusion that they can sell segregation to the rest of the country, and hardly anyone still believes in the use of violence, except a few backwoods sheriffs and chili-parlor hoodlums. Police Commissioner Claude Armour of Memphis, a city with an excellent integration record, puts...
...French evidently think that even token participation in SEATO could be construed as support for U.S. policies in Viet Nam. The Quai d'Orsay therefore announced that it would send only an "observer" to next week's annual SEATO meeting in London, though all other members are sending foreign ministers. "Deplorable," declared the conference's British hosts, who had been flattering themselves that their understanding with De Gaulle was rather good since Harold Wilson's visit to Paris four weeks ago, and had hoped that the French might underwrite a condemnation of Indonesian aggression in Malaysia...
Postponed Visits. But Chaffard felt emphatically that the Viet Cong had lots of staying power. "Old Uncle Ho and his comrades would go back to the maquis," wrote Chaffard, rather than suffer a military defeat at American hands. By the same token, their Viet Cong guerrillas in the South are perfectly willing to lie low for a while until U.S. patience wears thin and they can again set out to topple the Saigon government. Meanwhile, there was still the chance that Viet Cong regiments -backed by North Vietnamese army units-might mount a concerted attack on the airbase at Danang...
...which went to the highlands. A few weeks ago, Belaunde invited a group of Indians to Lima and awarded them a small golden shovel. In one year, they had built an airstrip, dozens of classrooms and 50 miles of road-$300,000 worth of construction. As a further token, he gave them a check for $37,000. "Next year," he says, "that $37,000 will be another...
...face of creeping mergerism, at least, one department of the University has held its its ground. Despite the token offering of coupons to Cliffies this fall, co-eds were turned away en masse last week when they attempted to transfer No. 29 for the opportunity to see Bill Bradley and his Princeton cohorts in action...