Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bearish Nick Katzenbach-one of the few men in Washington who call Rusk by his first name-could not present a greater physical contrast to George Ball, who ably occupied State's No. 2 post for more than five years. The elegantly attired Ball was never seen in shirtsleeves or without a vest; Katzenbach makes the most expensively tailored suit look as if it came from the thrift shop. (Yet, as he explained to amused associates, he will always be U-the traditional designation of the Under Secretary in the department's phone book.) The Under Secretary...
...Chancellor submit to a Bundestag vote of confidence this week. It seemed highly unlikely that . he would oblige, and some Socialists were plotting with the Free Democrats to combine the votes of the two groups just long enough to elect a new Chancellor-whose sole act would be to call for new national elections...
...this need for renewal with a special intensity, it may well stem from his experience in wavering between faith and doubt. His widowed mother, a schoolteacher, raised him as a Roman Catholic, and during his school years in Oklahoma City and Hollywood, he recalls, "I was what you would call devout. I was with it all the way-frequently a weekday communicant, an acolyte, the whole...
This year, approximately 150 unexpected students showed up in September. Watson said that many of these students had probably left school in June intending to take a year off. Because of the stepped up draft call, they decided to return to Harvard...
...physically not very big. A six-footer can look him straight in the flashback reels. But his voice carries 18 rock 'n' roll records an hour to FM radios within 100 miles of Kenmore Square. The human beings at WRKO-FM (98.5) call their one-piece radio station "the shy but friendly robot," which is catchy but far from accurate as a description. He gets about so quickly that already, only five weeks after arriving in Boston, he receives several hundred calls a night. And when it comes to friendliness, he's as cold as Petula Clark...