Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Office in downtown Saigon. Here the press corps is given a daily rundown on U.S. air, ground, and sea action by an information officer from the appropriate service. All these men really do is call attention to 'typos' in the mimeographed dope sheets given to the reporters at the door. If there are no questions from the floor (they are raised only after important battles or rumors) the briefings (called the 4:45 follies since the credibility gap days) last only 15 or 20 minutes...
...Thomas H.D. Mahoney, who is heading the search, feels that all nine councillors may be able to agree on the appointment, despite the deep division over the recent removal of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29. "That would be my hope--it may be unrealistic, but I wouldn't close the door," Mahoney said...
Later, the police let the crowd huddle in a stairwell near the courtroom door, where plainclothesmen snapped photos of everyone in sight. Police had replaced the hallways' dreary lights with new, high-powered bulbs to accommodate the cameramen. One of the main protesters was a balding but erect Soviet general in his 60s who circulated petitions among the assemblage, brandished his cane at a policeman who took his picture. "I'm not afraid of little boys!" shouted Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, who was fired by ex-Premier Khrushchev for protesting "lack of freedom" in the Soviet Union...
...Sidney returned from the New Left conference in Chicago in a decidedly illiberal frame of mind after being denounced by Black Power advocates. " 'I'm sick of being called a genocidal maniac!' young Sidney shouted. 'Sh-sh,' cautioned his mother. 'The liberals next door may hear you, and then we won't get invited to any more cocktail parties.' 'I'm sick of living in this liberal ghetto,' young Sidney said. 'Why don't we move out of here into a nice reactionary neighborhood where people...
...dinner for all the important people in town. Everyone showed up in his best, either a suit or an ornate robe, and chatted pleasantly or danced during cocktails. Then a servant came out to announce that dinner was ready, and instantly the place was transformed. People jammed through the door, shoving each other out of the way to get in, shoveling enough food onto their plates to last the week. Last man got nothing...