Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spirit of the Times. Anxious to sue under New Hampshire law, Mrs. Clark's lawyer requested a pretrial look at the "place of injury" doctrine. As a result, New Hampshire's approach to choice of law has been drastically revised. From now on, said State Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank R. Kenison, New Hampshire will defer to whichever state offers "the sounder rule...
...week's end it seemed unlikely that the President would call a post-election special session, mainly in order to put through the tax increase that he is anxious to postpone until after the election, and it was probable that the 89th would somehow charge hell-bent and headlong through most of its remaining business and adjourn around Oct. 20. To that end, the Congress frantically slammed through several major bills last week. Among them...
...even a mission to the White House seemed to stem the anti-Erhard muttering. In fact, as he stepped from the Lufthansa jet that brought him home from Washington a fortnight ago, Erhard was greeted by a blaze of unsettling headlines. They spoke of closed-door meetings among politicians anxious to get his scalp. His own deputy party chairman, Rainer Barzel, had huddled with former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Erhard's severest critic. In a hunting lodge in the Vierherrenwald, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had canvassed powerful C.D.U. state leaders on Erhard's strength in their regions. It remained...
...coverage of astronautics alone, the networks will shell out a combined $20 million this year to handle all angles of the story-from anxious wives awaiting the return of the astronauts to the various manufacturers who have contributed to the space capsule. With 30-to 40-man staffs in Viet Nam, CBS and NBC spent over $500,000 apiece on war coverage last year. With the help of the Early Bird communications satellite, TV managed live coverage of the Gemini 6 splashdown...
...horrible question. "What have you got now?" The questioner represents a mysterious organization specializing in "fresh starts" for tired businessmen. Sweating a bit, the banker (John Randolph) rather furtively reviews his list of assets. Wealth. Company presidency coming up. A boat, social friends, a Scarsdale colonial occupied by an anxious little wife who keeps the roses trimmed. Answers the businessman, with grinding despair: "I. . .I don't know...