Word: consultation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to an objection from R. Thomas Seymour '64, chairman of the HCUA, that the Administration had failed to consult with his group and had snubbed its committee on rents, Trottenberg said he had "no idea that the Council was plowing ahead on a report." Other members of the Administration noted the idea of uniform rents had been discussed for several years...
...over again," said Dirksen, "that, regardless of the entreaties and presentations that have been made to me, I feel that I must follow a type of formula laid down by Edmund Burke, the great parliamentarian and Prime Minister of Britain, when he said it was his business to consult with his people, but it would be a betrayal of his conscience and a disservice to them if he failed to exercise his independent judgment...
...both Writer Graham and the Post, Burnett's memory seemed more than enough to go on. Neither bothered to go over the story with Wally Butts or Bear Bryant-on the grounds that they would only deny it. Nor did anyone consult Burnett's sometime business partner, John Carmichael, who said he knew all about the intercepted phone call and had seen the notes. No one at the Post deemed it necessary to study moving pictures of the Georgia-Alabama game -which might have supported, or cast serious doubt on the suspicion that the game had been fixed...
...writer, Silliphant would like to retire some day to a farm to write plays. In the meantime, he finds that his television work is a "way of learning" to write that both exhilarates and terrifies him. He is so compulsively chained to his typewriter that he recently decided to consult a psychiatrist to determine what the compulsion is all about. On the other hand, he wakes up every morning in terror, convinced that his writing is "just a trick, and people will get on to it." Television, says he, "is a form not of masochism but of martyrdom. I believe...
...appearance of a familiar face in the doorway was not reassuring. It was Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin, nicknamed because of his long, high-pitched harangues during the endless test ban talks in Geneva; when Scratchy summoned his automobile, there was speculation that he was on his way to consult with Nikita Khrushchev over some hitch...