Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beatific quality. From my Marine training I remember: a platoon commander from West Point screaming in my face that I had written "Harvard College" rather than "Harvard University" on my registration forms as some kind of subtle joke; peers in training stunned and disturbed when I was required to attend study hall because I had flunked an exam on the. 45 caliber pistol; a few confused, but sincere peers projecting upon me all of their own intellectual aspirations and longings for status. Gradually, I came to realize that being a "Harvard man" for me had little to do with what...
...simply did not mind the store sufficiently. That was ironic, since Kennedy won the whip job two years ago by waging a quiet telephone campaign against an establishment type, Louisiana's Russell Long, who had shirked his work. But when Ted took over and absented himself frequently to attend to other matters, the club turned against him too. Byrd, as secretary of the Democratic Conference, carried much of Kennedy's load. Thus there was at least a half-truth in Byrd's kindly explanation that "this was not a slap at Kennedy?it was an affirmation...
...Lyndon B. Johnson. Russell never married-he had been too busy with politics, he explained-and he usually avoided capital parties, staying in his Washington apartment reading history or the Congressional Record. "I came up here with a country-boy idea that you had to be polite and attend every party you were invited to," he would say. "That liked to killed me the first year...
...scientists, in any case, agreed that the maria are probably quite alike, a view supported by the first Russian scientist to attend a NASA moon conference. Reporting on the 3 oz. of dust gathered last September from the Sea of Fertility by the automated Soviet moon probe, Luna 16, Geochemist Aleksandr Vinogradov indicated that the dark gray samples were very similar to the American lunar specimens from the Ocean of Storms and the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 's landing site. He elicited even greater interest with his revelation that the Russians are planning still more sophisticated unmanned retrievers...
...About 20 undergraduates and graduate students flew with Hoffmann to Washington to attend the meeting which was held strictly off the record at Kissinger's request. The session was held in the White House Situation Room, where President Nixon is briefed during crises. As Kissinger talked with the group, students could see a map of Cambodia on the wall...