Word: dispatcher
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...even known that I was a candidate. I threw the dispatch on the table. My colleagues read it with astonishment rather than jubilation; they congratulated me but without real passion. For we all were ill at ease. I knew that unless the agreement that Le Due Tho and I had worked out could be enforced, the structure of peace for Indochina was unlikely to last. I would have been far happier with recognition for a less precarious achievement. I am prouder of what I accomplished in the next two years in the Middle East...
...divided nation by the 1954 Geneva Conference." (In fact, Ho frequently and vocally sought to participate in the aborted election.) And, said the President, it was former President John F. Kennedy '40 who first sent U.S. marines to Vietnam. (Actually, Lyndon B. Johnson was the first President to dispatch marines to Southeast Asia...
...fact, the dispatch said, a negative vote would "substantially diminish U.S. ability to play a critical role" in Arab-Israeli peace talks it would also "permit the [Soviet] Union to increase its influence in the Arab World." Hours later, a sharply divided Senate approved the sale by a 52-48 margin, making official President Reagan's pledge several months earlier to sell the aircraft. Later, sensors confirmed that last-minute lobbying efforts--like that of the Time group--had tipped the scales in favor of the Saudis...
Nevertheless, the Gray Old Lady of Filbert Street will be missed. Founded in 1847 as Cummings' Evening Telegraphic Bulletin, it made history with its inaugural edition by publishing the first telegraph report in a U.S. newspaper, a dispatch from the Mexican War. The Bulletin was not so fast on the circulation front. When Businessman William McLean bought it in 1895, it was last in a field of 13 city dailies, and sold for 2?. McLean cut the price in half and increased coverage of local news. By 1905 the paper was the city's largest; by 1947, with...
Yesterday was a great day for Harvard wrestling. Not only did the grapplers defeat a powerful Boston University squad with relative dispatch, but, and more importantly, they defeated Princeton, ending an incredible 15-year string of losses...