Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming week. This was simply more detail than he could handle, and with his vast responsibilities he had little time to follow the progress of peace initiatives. The one bureaucratic agency which could have coordinated the peace and war efforts, the Vietnam Working Group at the Vietnam desk of the State Department, had become by this time little more than a propaganda organ which sent its members around the country defending Administration policy...
...first time since Robert Kennedy's assassination, the surviving Kennedy brother returned to his desk in the back row of the Senate. Teddy Kennedy came back at a poignant and appropriate moment. After the gunshot killings of Bobby and Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration drew up gun-control legislation that went considerably beyond an earlier law that forbade the mail-order sale of revolvers and automatics. Chin cradled in hand, Ted Kennedy last week watched the Senate debate that measure...
...Suddenly I felt that I couldn't read it like this. I had to do something appropriate to the occasion. So I got up. I put on my best black suit, a white shirt with a starched collar, a tie, and my good shoes. Then I sat at my desk and read a new classic." Tvardovsky sent the manuscript to Khrushchev...
...daughter of Marshall Lin Piao, Mao's top lieutenant and heir apparent. Her articles from the Air Force News, including an unusually emotional tribute to the late Air Force Commander Liu Ya-lou, are said to be prominently displayed under the glass plate on Marshal Lin's desk. Both the fatherly pride and the daughterly sentimentality are surprising-if ever so slight-touches of humanity in a country that has lately taken to warning its youth against "the evil wind of falling in love...
...full-fledged story conference at Scholz's beer hall. Then one of us would go out of town, and the other would stay behind and put out the paper. The guy who remained had to do everything: editing, copy-reading, makeup. He would even set up a desk next to the Linotype operator and read over his shoulder...