Word: aloofness
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Anderson's first quiet triumph was a close relationship between the Administration and the jealously independent Federal Reserve System, which controls U.S. bank-credit levels and was once openly at war with Harry Truman's Treasury Department, and continued to keep aloof in George Humphrey's day. Anderson persuaded Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to drop around for informal sessions with the President, Anderson, Raymond Saulnier, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and Presidential Adviser Gabriel Hauge. Thus, without binding Bill Martin, the Administration had its first regular forum for voicing...
...Hold Aloof. Academy President Nesmeyanov seems the very model of the independent scholar and gracious host. But the academy's general secretary is a cop type named Topchiev, whose job it is to keep the "party character" alive within the academy. Through Topchiev, the party still belabors scientists with demands that they "must not hold aloof from the ideological struggle," and if deviating intellectuals no longer disappear from the face of the earth, they can still disappear from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along...
...Aloof, and thin-lipped, Judge Samuel Seabury moved out of the news and was scarcely heard from again. Last week, at 85, the man who had helped muffle the roar of the '20s died in a Long Island nursing home...
...seven-year-old Princess Anne bravely walked into London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children-the first member of Britain's royal family to be treated in a public institution. Later, minus tonsils and adenoids, Anne greeted her parents Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, remained aloof from the carping of the London press, which weepily urged that the "lonely patient in Ward Dy" be allowed to play with the other kiddies...
...past two years. A week earlier, when news seeped out of the desert that French and Spanish forces were conducting a joint campaign to clear their Saharan possessions of Moroccan irregulars, Mohammed V launched on a tour of Morocco's southern border. Heretofore, Mohammed has kept himself carefully aloof from Moroccan extremists' attempts to snatch the potentially oil-rich Sahara away from France and Spain. At the oasis of M'mahid before a cheering throng of desert riders, he laid formal claim to the western Sahara-a claim based on the fact that 900 years...