Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal with the innovative power of American cities around the turn of the century. I searched Professor Handlin's lecture for veiled references to the strike and found not a one. But at its finish, laying down his notes, the good professor waxed grim and offered a brief prayer that Harvard might have returned to normalcy by his course's next meeting...
Admitting that it was too early to judge the merit of the new mood, Pusey offered the seniors "a few brief remarks" on their role as social reformers...
...Gray Area. President Nixon moved to counter such criticism, sending one of his top advisers to brief the press. There had been, said the adviser in a background session, no significant (meaning not more than 10%) increase in battalion-size operations. Continuing high U.S. casualty totals in Viet Nam were the result, rather, of continued Communist offensives. Though admitting that figures on U.S. military operations in Viet Nam have always been of an "illusionary nature," he nonetheless cited some. In a typical week, when 35 to 40 enemy attacks are launched, some 150 to 200 Americans are likely...
...government, after the powerful Umma Party had healed a split between its traditionalist and progressive wings. The man in line to become Prime Minister had been Sadik Mahdi, 33, a progressive, development-minded politician who had made a promising start on solving the Sudan's problems during a brief stint as Prime Minister in 1966-67. Just after the take-over last week, Sadik gathered with his followers in the anteroom of the holy tomb of the Mahdi in Omdurman. Dressed in a white silk galabia, he spoke in a whisper, but he professed not to be discouraged...
...sense of professionalism but a sort of noblesse oblige which he works hard to maintain. A product of prep schools, Princeton and genial genealogy, Fielding is descended on his father's side from Novelist Henry Fielding, related on his mother's to Naturalist William Temple Hornaday. After a brief postgraduate career as a mutual funds salesman, Temp turned to the typewriter and sold his first article to the Reader's Digest in 1940. He was then called into the Army and sent to Fort Bragg, N.C., where his commanding officer assigned him to write a guidebook to the base. That...