Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hawaii this week, on the President's orders, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and Maxwell Taylor will sit down once again with top U.S. diplomats and soldiers to discuss the deteriorating situation in Southeast Asia. Lyndon Johnson obviously wants to avoid any drastic action until after the elections, but events may not permit such delay. In the growing debate about what to do, what are the alternatives...
Proponents of the stock withdrawal claim that the University has sacrificed its neutrality by purchasing stock in discriminatory firms. But stock ownership in this country does not necessarily confer managerial control; and the University has always tried to avoid becoming involved in purely business activities. Its investments have remained investments--nothing more...
Congress enacted the expatriation rules to avoid squabbles with other countries in behalf of naturalized Americans who "only claim citizenship when it suits their purpose." But the rules do not apply to native-born Americans, who can live abroad as long as they please, and it may well be that this disparity presumes for naturalized Americans a kind of second-class citizenship...
...product of Texas Architects R. Max Brooks and Llewellyn Pitts. Basically it is a chunky, $5,000,000 rectangular marble box rising six stories above some elegant but unrelated granite vaultwork. Since much of Mexico City sits on what was a lake, the building must be broad-footed to avoid sinking into muddy subsoil. A Mexican engineer, Leonardo Zeevaert, designed a displacement foundation that is in effect a watertight ship, and the weight of the building that it supports exactly equals the weight of the soil removed in excavation. Mexicans call it "the floating embassy...
While a few cynics contend that the Yankees are holding back to avoid anti-trust prosecution and to improve attendance, the events of the first fifth of the season indicate that there may be more truth than usual in the old cliches...