Word: contacts
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...said Richard Nixon during the 1968 campaign, and next week he begins to carry out that pledge with an eight-day working trip to Western Europe. He has had no official contact with Western Europe since 1960, and no U.S. President has toured its capitals since 1963, when John Kennedy visited. The Continent Nixon will find is a very different place. In 1963, the Berlin Wall was still new; Charles de Gaulle had not yet challenged NATO; Konrad Adenauer still held sway in West Germany; the Viet Nam war had yet to poison the ambiance of European friendship for America...
...committee owes its existence to students discontent as it crystallized in the Paine Hall demonstration, and its explicit function is to investigate ways of meeting student demands for greater involvement in Faculty decision-making. Fainsod's group cannot hope to be effective unless it maintains constant and intimate contact with the constituency which is pushing for change...
Confining that contact to periodic testimony or informal consultation would endanger student-faculty communication from the start. The CEP heard testimony from students on the ROTC issue, but that did not prevent its misunderstanding (or distorting) their concerns in its final recommendation. To assure an accurate representation of student opinion, students must participate in the evaluation of information and the formulation of proposals. Giving them a vote is the only way to assure their participation in the final deliberation of the committee...
Pappas has built all this partly on his knack for becoming well known to leaders in politics, business and organized religion-and his ability to use one contact to reinforce another. For years in Boston, many of the city's big men gathered at the daily luncheons of the "Pappas boys," Tom and his brother John, in the dining room of their food warehouse. The brothers became important back-roomers in city and state affairs. John worked the Democratic side and was rewarded with an associate district judgeship; Tom earned some personal lOUs as a fund raiser...
...phenomenon that science has never been able to explain: that is the mysterious energy flow of the body that has been documented in cultures in all parts of the world. Something exists in us, and we do not know what it is; it is enough to come in contact with...