Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgia's Governor Carl Sanders, who had introduced him and was now sitting near by. "Governor," said Humphrey, "you'd better do something about this." Sanders, who has his own political problems, sat silent. Finally, the hoots and howls died down; Humphrey rushed nervously through a brief speech, got out of Moultrie as fast as he could...
...trial's end, there was a brief vignette that presaged what was to come. Dr. James Slater Murphy threw his arms around his lawyer and kissed him on the cheek. Mrs. Nelson ("Happy") Rockefeller, handsome second wife of the Governor of New York, stood in the corridor smoking cigarette after cigarette. "You are nervous!" said a deputy sheriff sympathetically...
Bare Feet. Shastri, who had spent most of the 2½-hour flight with his bare feet propped up on a metal dispatch case as he perused official papers, landed almost on the run. After brief airport ceremonies, he dashed off to a locomotive factory to ask the workers to ignore the general strike and keep the factory open, "whatever happens." Their loudly chorused reply: "It will be kept open...
...union at General Motors has been spoiling for a fight for months. In March, a group of local union presidents from G.M. plants staged a brief uprising against Reuther at the United Auto Workers' convention in Atlantic City, demanded and won a tough approach toward G.M. in this year's bargaining. When auto negotiations began in earnest, Reuther reserved his sharpest barbs for G.M., calling it a "huge, dehumanized production machine." When Reuther picked Chrysler as his first strike target, union members from G.M. accused him of selling them out because of his fear...
Paolozzi also reads the analytic philosophy of the late Ludwig Wittgenstein, an eccentric Cambridge professor who, in brief, believed that what in logic was nonsense could be meaningful to man. The artist has made multicolored silk screens based on collages following Wittgenstein, but that is only half his homage. His cool sculpture, welded collages made of objects that do not exist, are themselves contemplative nonsense. Their aim in art, as Wittgenstein defined his in philosophy, is "to show the fly the way out of the fly bottle...