Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Registering coeds were met at the front desk on Monday by A Group Of The Guys From The House who in posture and approach were very much like A Group Of The Guys From Nini's. They looked me over, shoved my temporary student I.D. card toward me (Jody Adams is a Yale Undergraduate from November 4 to November 6) and sent me, with a guide, to find my room and its owner, my "student host...
During the session De Gaulle asked few questions. He had on his desk three "position papers" from the Ministry of Finance. One of them projected the situation if the franc were devalued at 9.785%-the figure in Le Monde. The second paper outlined a devaluation of 7.5%. The third report, prepared at De Gaulle's personal request, projected the consequences if he were not to devalue at all. When everyone had spoken, the General gave a brief resume of the trends of thought...
...only glow of color in his face. His skin is pink and peeled away, the shinylayer that is left to an old man after the epidermis is worn away. He wears a vest that he pulls at, a white starched shirt and a darkly polka-dotted tie. Behind the desk with its law books and walnut, he is only a head, only those blue gems of eyes. But he will stand every 15 minutes or so, walk about behind the desk, take a drink of water, gulping it down very quickly, sucking it in his mouth powerfully, with his free...
Like Adlai Stevenson before him, Hubert Humphrey somehow seemed taller in defeat. His final, fierce effort to overtake Richard Nixon had already won back the respect of many. His gracious acceptance of the loss disarmed most of the remaining critics. On his desk in Washington lay mountains of mail from Democrats and Republicans alike, nearly all of it favorable. Even while he relaxed last week in the Virgin Islands, he relayed word to friends in Washington that in any planning for the future of the Democratic Party, he was to be counted...
...Jangles. The clash outside Lucerna Hall was the kind of public protest that has put Party Chief Alexander Dubček under increasing pressures. Those pressures start, of course, with the Russians. Time and again during the recent demonstrations, the hot-line telephone on Dubček's desk jangled with angry calls from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, who warned that the Russian army was capable of controlling the streets if Dubček was not. Dubček summoned student leaders to his office and sternly warned that the party would not tolerate any more anti-Soviet...