Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upon taking over from Folsom in January 1959, Patterson proclaimed economy. But before long he was spending state funds almost as uninhibitedly as Kissin' Jim. Not content with a press secretary. he also hired a radio-TV secretary and a personal photographer. Though he got rid of five planes, he later bought four others. Shortly before his term expired, he used $17,500 of his emergency funds to pay legal expenses for his brother Maurice, whom he had appointed state finance director. Maurice was caught up in an investigation involving the alleged misuse of Alabama funds...
...Hoffmann admits, there is no possible alternative to standardized testing. He does not want to abolish the system; he would be content with improving it. His suggestion as to how this can be done is the classic one for a man who has searched, but seen no answers--Dr. Hoffmann wants to form a committee to study the problem...
...lower level," and handled in a manner that Britain's Manchester Guardian called "a foolish piece of hamfistedness." the release was approved by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and issued after only a 30-minute advance notice to the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Furious at both the content and style of the release, Prime Minister Diefenbaker was a model of outraged dignity before the House of Commons. It was, he cried, "an unprecedented action" and an "unwarranted intrusion in Canadian affairs." Canada remains a friend and ally of the U.S., but not a "satellite...
...this comedy Tony has a role in which he can Cary on to his heart's content : he plays a man who thinks he can do without a woman. Do what? Do business, for one thing, and as the manager of a Nevada casino, he has plenty of business to do. One day, temptation (Suzanne Pleshette) comes slithering into his Eveless Eden. He resists. But after temptation comes responsibility (Claire Wilcox). He can't resist. How could any redblooded, blue-eyed, squarejawed, caramel-centered American male resist a darling little five-year-old girl abandoned by her heartless...
...ideology. Born a Polish Jew-Bernstein-Namierowski-in turbulent Galicia, he longed for roots. He found them in England, where he went to study in 1908. Sad to say, he was never accepted as a teacher at Oxford because his overbearing personality offended the dons; he had to be content with the University of Manchester. Like another famous British Jew, Disraeli, Namier was accused of snobbery because of his weakness for aristocracy and great homes. But to Namier, as to Disraeli, these were symbols of a stable, successful society...