Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outdone, some of the more reactionary elements in the Senate--notably John Stennis, Margaret Chase Smith, Strom Thurmond, and Carl Curtis--tacked an amendment onto the National Aeronautics and Space Administration authorization bill in June denying NASA grants to colleges that bar military recruiters from their campus. As Mrs. Smith said at the time, "colleges cannot have their cake and eat it too." Curtis was more direct. "Institutions have an obligation, patriotic in nature," he said, "and in the interests of our country to cooperate with programs of the U.S. Government...
Last December, Mrs. Carl Rowan, wife of the former ambassador to Finland, was elected to membership at the Indian Spring Country Club near Washington. Soon after she was invited to become a member of her club's "B" tennis team, the Chevy Chase Club, the Columbia Country Club and the Washington Golf and Country Club decided that none of them could any longer put together a "B" team for interclub matches. Though the clubs deny it, the word around Washington is that some of their members do not relish the possibility of having to play on the same court...
Brandeis Biophysicist Herman Epstein readily concedes that he really doesn't "give a damn" about euglena, the single-celled aquatic organisms whose elusive qualities he has been tracking most of his professional life. What keeps him at the job is the thrill of the chase and the fascinating fundamental questions about life that the pursuit raises. In 13 years of teaching science at Brandeis, Epstein was dismayed by the fact that the traditional textbook-and-lecture approach continually failed to convey his own excitement about science. The introductory biology course had become, he says, "the most disliked course...
...action designed to rally Kennedy forces. He suggested that a principal object of his candidacy was to apply additional pressure on party regulars to adopt strong platform planks on ending the war and resolving the urban crisis. He praised both McCarthy and Humphrey, who was his neighbor in Chevy Chase, Md., for nine years. He pledged that if either wins the nomination, "he will have my active support-not only for his own considerable merit but because there is nothing in Mr. Nixon's past record to indicate that he is a man of either peace or compassion...
...White House liaison man, proposing a bombing halt (phase A) to be followed, after a face-saving interval, by mutual de-escalation (phase B). Kosygin had boarded a train to Scotland when Johnson abruptly decided that the proposed interval was too long. The embarrassed Wilson was forced to chase Kosygin down with a new proposal...