Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest too much but actually gave the Times's critique far wider currency than it would otherwise have had (the editorial appeared originally on a Saturday, when circulation is low, and editorial page readership is even lower). In Syracuse, on the other hand, Nixon remained very much in control of himself and the situation when he encountered the best-organized heckling he has yet seen on the road. Taking a cue from Ed Muskie, he let his opponents have their say but got the last word in himself...
...Russians have given him some reason to worry in the form of bitter propaganda attacks by the Soviet and Warsaw Pact press and furtive attempts to subvert Tito's control over the rival ethnic groups in his country. As a result, Tito has tightened his internal-security system and reactivated his World War II partisan system, which fought the Nazis to a standstill. In addition, he has ordered war supplies to be stashed away in the country's formidable mountains, and has massed his army along the likely invasion routes...
...songbirds. In fact, Vietnamese women are birds of a very different feather. Heiresses of an ancient tradition of matriarchy, they have become, under the pressures of two decades of war, Asia's most emancipated women. They fight, politic, run businesses and their families and, through their husbands, probably control much of South Viet Nam's endemic corruption...
...cheerfully admits, "I get tanked up while the airplane does," agrees. "It's really a hatred of being dependent on something mechanical," he says. Then too, executives who feel that they must always be in command may be bothered by the feeling that they are not in control...
Most bankers disavow voracious intentions. They are, after all, sensitive to the popular concern that banks, with their vast resources, could grab too much control over the economy if permitted to do so. "We don't want to go into the steel business," says Chairman George S. Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, which recently won approval from Comptroller of the Currency William B. Camp to turn itself into a one-bank holding company...