Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARCTIC ODYSSEY: THE DAVID HUMPHREYS POLAR EXPEDITION (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A close-up study of an Arctic expedition that changed the map of the world. The odyssey follows the project from its planning stage through its 109 days on the polar...
...instance, it never even occurs to me to shake hands or salute with my left hand. I long ago learned to use right-handed scissors with ease. At dinners, when seated next to a righthander, I automatically keep my left elbow close to my side when eating to avoid bumps-and when things are too close at a table, I switch to eating with my right hand, another trick I taught myself long...
Ganglia of Government. The task that confronts him is formidable. Beyond setting broad policies, choosing from the plethora of recommendations being churned out by his advisers, keeping close vigil over the Viet Nam negotiations and the conduct of the war itself, Nixon must establish control over the balky federal bureaucracy. The vast ganglia of government, housed in 141 buildings in and around the capital, cornmand 6,300,000 in military and civilian personnel (the figure was just 4,800,000 when Nixon left Washington in 1961). Somewhat apprehensively, this awesome apparat still waited for the impact of the change...
...Blounts are thinking of living at Watergate; so are Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, who will be Chief of Protocol, and Nixon's longtime personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. Also in northwest Washington will be the Romneys, at the Shoreham West apartments. George Romney's office is too close to permit his customary four-mile morning jog, but the new Secretary of HUD will probably lope off to work through Rock Creek Park as his chauffeur delivers lunch-a meat sandwich, a salad, a thermos of milk-to his desk...
...from the audience that Havens does, but by beating it into submission as if through the brute impact of a natural force, sound system bursting, the drums hammering out the rigid boogie beat, guitars searing loud, and climactic. If Havens sends spiny threads to each individual listener pulling them close to him, Canned Heat throws out a broad blanket of all-enveloping sound to huddle under...