Word: anxious
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...knew well in advance that the President would call for expenditures of $97.9 billion, down $500 million from the current budget, and a deficit of $4.9 billion. He said so in his State of the Union message three weeks ago. But, having already heard the punch line, Congress was anxious to hear the rest of the story. Just how was Lyndon going to do it? House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck thought he had the answer. Snipped he: "With mirrors...
Schlesinger is reportedly not anxious to resume teaching duties, although he said yesterday that if he does teach anywhere, he "would prefer to do it at Harvard...
Knocking Opportunity. Another possibility was that Castro had raced off to Moscow to talk about Panama and the opportunities for stepped-up Communist subversion in Latin America. But other than the standard Pravda denunciations of "Yankee imperialism," there was little indication that Moscow was anxious to risk the fragile detente abuilding with the U.S. Khrushchev himself waited a full week before publicly mentioning Panama, then limited himself to a relatively mild attack: "Display some reason, gentlemen. Get out before it is too late, before you are chucked out." What seemed to aggravate Khrushchev far more was the recent CIA report...
...week. Banner headlines reflected the gravity of the conclusions: SMOKING CALLED GRAVE HAZARD (Fort Lauderdale News), CIGARETTES CAUSE CANCER (Chicago's American), IT'S OFFICIAL CIGARETTE SMOKING CAN KILL YOU (New York Herald Tribune). News stories spelled out every detail, and the editorial cartoonists were both anxious and melodramatic (see cuts). But in some of the collateral stories spawned by the report, the papers seemed as willing as the U.S. smokers to face up to the new dangers with an air of nonchalance...
Although the letter is being sent to Republican leaders throughout the country, the group is particularly anxious to communicate their ideas to the younger men in the party, according to John S. Saloma, an assistant professor of Political Science at M.I.T...