Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medford Mail Tribune. Says State G.O.P. Chairman Elmo Smith, a former Governor: "This Lodge deal is one of the most fantastic things that's ever occurred in American politics. All it represents is a lack of firm conviction on the part of the voters in their ability to accept anyone else." Republican Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. adds: "I'm struck by the number of people who don't have the vaguest notion of what Lodge stands for." Says Republican Tom McCall, who is running to succeed Appling: "This is the Year of the Green Tomato...
Inevitably, some people thought that Poitier had been awarded an Oscar more as a Negro than as an actor. He answers this one best with his own confidence: "Watching the performances pound for pound, I had to accept the fact that I wasn't a charity case," he says. As an actor, in all his better movies he has managed to suggest all the frustration and anger of being a Negro, without tumbling into mere bitterness and histrionics-no mean acting feat...
Toepfer emhapsized that candidates in the deferred group were all qualified for admissions and that "it would be nice to accept them all." He estimated that there would be approximately 250 in this category and another 450 late applications to be considered. The committee, he said, hopes to have finished its work...
Finally, wrote Considine, General MacArthur was grieved because, in 1952, President-Elect Eisenhower refused to accept a MacArthur plan to end the entire cold war. Precisely what the plan was, MacArthur did not disclose to Considine. One version of the plan came from South Carolina's Democratic Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, who said last week that he heard it ex plained by MacArthur in 1956. Mac-Arthur, said Dorn, urged Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles to threaten Rus sia with complete rearmament of Germany and Japan, "possibly including nuclear power," unless Russia agreed to live...
Students whose part time work is not credited toward a degree, will not be as likely to receive a deferment. However, Harvard does not ordinarily accept credits toward a degree, and this "might make a difference with some boards," according to Major Remo Gandin