Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acted quietly to bridge feelings between the Faculty and administration and to aid curriculum reform. He says that this function is mediation, not advocacy. He is a diplomatic historian, cautious in his sentences, cradling a thin-stemmed pipe several seconds before answering any question. Small tie-knot, two-button grey suit and flat-top haircut: unobtrusive except that he seems to neigh when he smiles...
...Button Microphone. Tully, a Washington columnist, has specialized in books that "reveal the truth" about Government agencies. His purpose this time is to demonstrate the pervasive and gigantic nature of the U.S. espionage establishment. Tully credits U.S. espionage experts with remarkable success. To hear him tell it, hardly a sparrow falls to earth in the world without a U.S. spy taking note. The book is filled with what might be called incidental intelligence. In Jordan, a U.S. agent was told a week in advance of the date of the planned 1967 Israeli offensive. (The U.S. believed the information, but Nasser...
Sporting a "No MIRV" button, Pool said that University research must be based on "an article of faith-that the dissemination of knowledge will lead to the general good. We have learned things that could make the Defense Department more humane and decent...
...were among those who wrote, inquiring about setting up practice in Surgoinsville. By last week, the town had narrowed the candidates down to four, and it hopes to have its new doctor soon. "We had no idea that we could unleash such a landslide of publicity and reaction," Mr. Button says. The ad, he feels, also made the "plight of other small doctorless communities a matter of wide public knowledge...
...much trouble disposing of all its audio-visual gadgets as it has dumping its excess nerve gas. More of them, unfortunately, are yet to come. The services have begun purchasing a new computer that briefs automatically without the aid of human voice or hand. At the push of a button, curtains part to reveal a screen, and the show goes on. When it ends, the computer closes the curtains and turns on the lights in the auditorium...