Word: coaxings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced last week that the Joint Chiefs do not oppose ratifications, a favorable vote was assured. Opponents still hope to coax a disapproving phrase or two out of some testifying officer, but many senators who were withholding any committment until the military had expressed its assent are now free to speak, and are beginning to do so. These announcements will elevate further the stature of military advice and consent...
...effort to reexamine Gen Ed with any general views of a cultural ideal. The major problem in General Education is administrative, not philosophical: it is to strengthen the bargaining power of the College in its dealings with the departments, or at the very least to enable the College to coax from the departments a new pledge of loyalty. For it is still an open question whether a four-year college "experience" makes any sense.JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., co-author of the Redbook and a member of the Doty Committee, has the longest record of service in General Education. As Chairman...
Temples for Dollars. To coax more contributions, Egyptian Culture Minister Abdel Kader Hatem is offering ancient art works, even whole temples, in return for contributions toward the salvation of Abu Simbel. Nothing so vulgar as a price list has been published, and only governments or large and dignified institutions may apply. Five temples are on the bargain counter. Three of them: Dendur, dedicated by Caesar Augustus to two drowned heroes; Dabod. built by a Nubian king; and Taffeh, built during the Roman period, have already been dismantled and moved to safe, high ground. The other two: Ellesya, built by Thutmosis...
...rumors were right. Forty-eight hours after Volovchenko, 46, made his Pravda debut, he was named Russia's farm boss, succeeding the hapless Konstantin Pysin, who had held the job for less than a year. During his brief tenure, Pysin tried his best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev...
...plots among 70,000 rural families. Another Bosch promise: economic diversification. Right now the Dominican Republic succeeds or fails with its sugar crop, which accounts for 70% of the country's export earnings of $140 million. So Bosch has pledged credits to small businessmen. He also hopes to coax more and more tourists to the country's four major hotels, its nightclubs, its cool, fragrant mountains...