Word: clark
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...predecessors all had indelible lessons. Harry Truman, recalls Clark Clifford, his principal aide, spent his first year believing that Uncle Joe Stalin might be a lot like other tough politicians whom Truman had known. He waited for the Russians to act fairly and responsibly (as viewed from the U.S.) in the postwar world. Then one day Harry decided he had waited long enough. He climbed into his limousine and went to the Hill and declared the Truman Doctrine to help the weak nations resist the Communists...
Galbraith's project attempts to do for the history of economics what Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man did for science and what Kenneth Clark's Civilisation did for art. Of the three, the professor emeritus from Harvard has the most difficult job. Economics is hard on the head and soft on visuals. Portraits of Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes are simply not as rousing as thermonuclear explosions or The Naked Maja. But the obscure theories that economists set adrift have far-reaching consequences. Said Keynes: "Practical men, who believe themselves...
Although city officials refused to estimate when they would open the lot, Leo W. Clark, an employee of the Cambridge budget office, said yesterday the city's financial situation will not effect its construction...
Depth is the team's strong suit. Wynn will take seven of his players South, but as of now only five are definites. Sally Roberts, number one last fall, leads a field which includes Captain Denise Thal, freshmen Katie Ditzler and Patty Wen, and Janet Clark...
...usual manse. "If I hit the skids tomorrow," she says, "I could still afford the house." She has a jukebox in the living room, an upright piano in the foyer and a small, cluttered study downstairs, with pictures of cherished stars of the past like Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. The ceiling of her bedroom is painted sky blue, with puffy white summer clouds-her brother Richard's artwork. In the back there is a small swimming pool, beside which stand a 6-ft. metal robot, a souvenir from one of her TV specials, and a stone statue...