Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witness in the extraordinary case. The President has instructed the Warren Commission to "satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered, and to report its findings and conclusions to him, to the American people and to the world." The commission has managed to avoid the natural impulse to weave a webwork of sinister motivations and complex conspiracies to satisfy a puzzled nation. Instead, it has found so far that the act was committed by a rootless, aimless, driven young man. It was a bizarre coming together of circumstances that gave Lee Oswald the time...
They organized a brotherhood to do battle with the sham idealism of the Royal Academy's classical "Grand Manner." They wanted to copy nature rather than slicken the surface of the world as they believed artists had done since the High Renaissance. They also hoped to avoid the cheapening effect that the Industrial Revolution was having on honest hand craftsmanship...
...unlikely to help him on the Coast. He had to have the moralistic anti-Rockefeller votes as well as those of his own ultra-conservatives to win on March 10. And plucky Senator Smith looks every inch as virtuous as Goldwater facing a divorced man and she has avoided the handicap of Barry's political extremism. Voters seeking to avoid a distasteful choice between the Governor's "sin and the Arizonan's Armageddon may leap for Senator Smith's open arms...
...have the President name a new vice-President. A proposed Constitutional amendment sponsored by Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) combines the best parts of these two proposals; Bayh's bill would have the President nominate a man, who would then have to be confirmed by Congress. This suggestion would avoid having Congress dictate its choice to the President; the need for Congressional confirmation provides a valuable cheek, on the President's decision...
...past two years, Harvard has had slumps after exams though it has usualy managed to avoid losses. Coach Cooney Weiland admits the slump is worse this year, but feels it is the product of a rash of bad breaks. The two losses earlier last week, "games which could have gone either way," inevitably caused a let-down. Thus against Dartmouth, "it was just one of those things. We didn't have it right from the start," Weiland said...