Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jacobs does not confine his efforts solely to medical emergencies--he performs morale-boosting missions as well. During the Dominican crisis, he was asked by anxious parents to contact Lance Corporal Martin E. Wahl, who was in combat with the Marines on the island. Jacobs spoke to Wahl's colonel, who personally went out to the firing lines to look...
...Pictures. Arriving a day ahead of the hurriedly assembled Vietnamese delegation, Johnson grumbled a bit about the weather being unfit for swimming-though McNamara braved the surf anyway. Instead, the President held a protracted council of war with General Westmoreland, whom he had met only once before and was anxious to size up further. Johnson's approving verdict: "He's got a military mind and a social worker's heart...
...Anxious to check their theory, Brooks and Mueller gave 113 University of Michigan professors thorough physical and psychological examinations. Men with a higher than average uric-acid content in their blood, the two researchers report in the Journal of the A.M.A., scored significantly higher than the rest in such qualities as drive (the energy put into daily activities), leadership (the tendency to lead others, to manipulate people rather than things), and achievement (actual accomplishment, plus the degree of pride with which it was reported) -all personality traits, as dis tinct from IQ ratings...
...sops go, Yuri Bondaryev's Silence is an especially cynical one. It was tossed to the Russian public at a time (1962) when Khrushchev was touching up his image as a liberalizer. It is tossed to the U.S. public at a time when the Soviet regime is anxious to make the West forget that two Russian writers...
...colored electorate." Even if race does cease to be a political issue, (which seems unlikely, since it has remained an issue in the "emancipated" North for a century) Negroes identified overwhelmingly with the Democratic Party in 1964, and their loyalties will not fade quickly. Negroes should not be anxious to forsake the party which gave them the Civil Rights Act for the party whose presidential candidate voted against the act in the United States Senate. Allegiances endure far beyond the causes which gave them birth and it will probably be much longer than ten to fifteen years before Negroes stop...