Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist summit meeting in Moscow. The Soviets offered no objections to the visit. In fact, Soviet diplomats in Washington and Moscow were soon passing the word that the presidential excursion into their own backyard would not endanger the Big Four talks on the Mideast. Nor, they said, would it delay the start of the U.S. -Soviet arms talks, expected to begin in August...
...five-hour White House visit, Finch found himself losing the argument over Knowles. Finally the President gave his old friend and longtime political partner the word: Knowles was not worth the bitter fight. Finch issued a statement in which he loyally-if not convincingly-took "full responsibility for the delay of this appointment...
...Boston, Knowles reacted with unanticipated restraint-especially since he had threatened to write an expose about the affair if rejected, and had never minced words about his bitter feelings over the delay. After absolving Finch, he suggested that the political activities of the A.M.A.-of which he is a member -should be investigated. As for the President, the doctor said: "I think that President Nixon has maintained his political integrity, and if he has had to meet certain promises and debts made during his campaign, I think that it is only fair that he should...
...line of autos stopped on the highway. The horns that assault one throughout the scene act on them only as low-level irritation. When they come on the front of the line and discover that a car wreck (corpses strewn on the bank) is the cause of the delay, they simply accelerate past; the camera's move into high-angle, giving the shot of bloody bodies and smashed cars a mood of tragedy, is ignored by the motorists who drive into the distance. The scene is a brilliant metaphor for bourgeois social relations--the stopped motorists, though unwilling to take...
LAST week, after months of delay, the U.S. Government began to act on that warning from William C. Foster, head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Johnson Administration. For the first time, President Nixon's National Security Council devoted a full session to defining the negotiating positions that the U.S. will take when it discusses possible limits on nuclear weapons with the Soviet Union. A second Security Council meeting is scheduled for this week. The President also announced that, if the Soviets agree on time and place, SALT-the long-awaited strategic arms limitation talks-will...