Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy despite deep personal doubts about the bombings. "McNamara," says a State Department official, "is torn between what's necessary and what's desirable." Recently McNamara was asked if he thought the bombing was effective. He said no. In that case, he was asked, why not call it off? "I've got my generals too," said the Secretary...
...night a signal of more or less distress is coming in to the State Department message center from at least one of them. In the wee hours, the cables marked NIACT, or "night action," are rushed to a duty officer who has to decide whether to call and wake the appropriate assistant secretary, remembering that the assistant secretary may already have been wakened once before. Early in the morning, last night's take of cables is culled over, digested and circulated in innumerable copies, and several times during the day overflowing in-baskets are topped off with a new sheaf...
None of this is to suggest that what old foreign service hands like to call "old-fashioned diplomacy" is unimportant. Quite the contrary. It may make the difference between a minor crisis heating up into a major one or cooling off until next time. But I do mean emphatically to suggest that constant communication among foreign affairs professionals about what they believe to be their common concerns may sometimes put them quite out of touch with reality. They may become so absorbed with diplomatic move and counter-move that they lose sight of what motivates the individual players. They...
There's an aura of excitement around 14 Plympton St. Not only on the special occasions that call for a private cocktail party. Not simply because the best college newspaper in the country is put together there. It's because when you're on the CRIMSON you're on your own--doing Harvard the way you want to, not the way they've got it planned...
...first half, Harvard's six-point lead caused Yale to call a worried time-out. Then the Elis administered a zone press as Yale guards Rich Stone and Bob McCallum forced Harvard into numerous turnovers. Royer and Kanuth triggered a short comeback which cut the Yale lead from a high of 16 to the eight-point half-time margin...