Word: answering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the U.S. maintained that it had received no reply from Hanoi to Johnson's latest suggestions-though there were reports that an answer had already arrived and was under study. A break could come at any time, but just when depended principally on two men: North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh and Lyndon Johnson. On the other hand, if the present initiative should prove fruitless, Johnson could continue through the end of his term without uttering another word about a bombing halt. Still, he must find it tantalizing to think...
...while, every detail of his campaign day seemed to fit the expected loathsome pattern. Nixon had cancelled plans for a public rally on the Common; instead of bothering with the hecklers, he would give a pep talk to campaign workers inside the snug Somerset hotel, and then answer questions from a careful ethnic mix of six New England citizens...
DOES academic freedom encompass public remarks by a university representative that inflame racial and religious passions? To New York University President James M. Hester, the answer seems to be no. Last week he fired a Negro militant who had claimed that "antiblack Jews" dominated the New York City public schools, and charged that Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey were "racist bastards...
...answers to such questions about historic personages, along with other more or less fascinating oddments of Americana, now await tourists and trivia enthusiasts at Washington's new National Portrait Gallery. For its opening exhibit, called "This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits," the gallery assembled 173 likenesses of figures from American history (see color pages). Though the gallery already owns some 500 pictures, it reached outside its own store and borrowed about three-quarters of the portraits now on show. Paintings, busts, daguerreotypes, cartoons, and even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags...
...realize that you would like to have us become contributors to your campaign," Mott wrote to Humphrey, "but you should not expect an immediate decision from any of us checkbook-in-hand. We will each make our own individual judgments on the basis of how you answer our questions and how you conduct your campaign in the coming weeks...