Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working for Scranton. Nelson Rockefeller withdrew from the race, threw his support (and, perhaps more important, the facilities of his widespread organization) to Scranton. And while Dwight Eisenhower maintained a glum silence, his brother Milton sent Scranton a lengthy letter of endorsement, said pointedly: "I know that you avoid snap judgments and clever remarks devoid of sincerity and common sense. I admire you for your moderate but firm philosophy, and I hope the American people will realize what an opportunity they now have for placing the leadership of our nation in steady hands...
...announcement of a 20-year "friendship pact" between East Germany and the Soviet Union. The document pledged mutual assistance in case of aggression and spoke vaguely of West Berlin as "an independent political unit" but specifically upheld the Potsdam Treaty, which had established the Western presence in Berlin. To avoid any misunderstanding, Moscow had made it clear to Washington that the new treaty did not affect the West's position-and was therefore meaningless...
...achieve the "Great Society." At the President's next stop on the academic circuit, Holy Cross College, he offered the hope that science might "bypass the politics of the cold war." Lady Bird thought it more important to stress peace of another kind, and told Radcliffe seniors to "avoid a conscious war with men" and to use their brains to become "not a superwoman, but a total woman, a natural woman...
...Avoid becoming second rate, cautioned Corning Glass Board Chairman Amory Houghton Jr. at Michigan's Albion College: "It is one of the most all-encompassing, intoxicating forces you'll ever come up against." Take care not to be pushy, either, added Calvin B. Hoover, Duke University economist who spoke at Duke. If anyone realizes that "you are grooming yourself for leadership, you will be considered the insufferable prig which you would be." And thus was Youth once again infused with the distilled wisdom of Age and Experience...
...competing for the same job and were equal in every respect save skin color, the job would go to the Negro." Some defense contractors feel it is good business to display Negroes conspicuously at drafting tables and in labs. Consumer-oriented companies are inclined to woo Negro trainees to avoid the unpleasantness of picket lines and sit-ins. By and large, however, U.S. companies are seeking Negroes for promising jobs because they feel it is the right thing to do and the right time to do it. "We are looking for brains," says Swift & Co. Recruiter Edward Hall, "and they...