Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire foreign aid program. So is Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Democratic floor leader. So is Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse. Alabama's John Sparkman, next in seniority to Fulbright, was reluctant as any to take on the task. Only after much cajoling did he finally agree to accept, even while warning that he is sympathetic with Fulbright's views and that "I think a majority of the committee...
...paid any attention to Peking's challenge, and even such "neutralists" as Tito and Nasser were opposed to the Chinese-Indonesian game. The General Assembly was more interested in achieving some resolution of the U.N.'s continuing financial crisis. At week's end, Subandrio agreed to accept $100 million in aid from Peking plus "military experience"-presumably Mao's guerrilla-warfare manual of arms. A joint communique also attacked unnamed countries "trying to forestall" an international Afro-Asian conference to be held in Algiers in late spring, where Peking may well try to promote its "R.U.N...
...milk. Though retired from his last post, as professor of biochemistry at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, he writes and conducts experiments there, at 85 a lively testimonial to the balanced diet (in his case, it includes two glasses of buttermilk a day). This week he will accept the first $1,000 McCollum Award from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition...
...Paul Peter Meouchi is leader of the Maronite Christians. Maximos IV Saigh, Melchite Patriarch of Antioch, is a bearded churchly rebel who spoke French instead of Latin at the Vatican Council and three times previously refused a red hat on the grounds that "for a Patriarch to accept a cardinalate is treason...
...Statehouse by Haydon Burns, who charged during the campaign that there were an unspecified number of "pinks and Communists on the campuses," and warned that "they would be wise to resign." Five days before the end of his term, however, Bryant named the first nine regents. Burns refused to accept them, then announced that he would contest in the State Supreme Court the law establishing what Bryant had sometimes called "my" regents. Ignoring the legal assault, the regents last week proposed spending $303 million in the next two years, a 60% increase in the current budget. Ignoring the regents, Burns...