Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence, any other form of mouse defense Far from being "assembled experts," the young mice are obviously ill-informed brainstorm-ers-generalists of the most shallow kind-glibly tossing out solutions to a problem they don't begin to understand. The old grey mouse-a specialist, no doubt-saves them from folly by pointing out the enormous technical difficulties in their plan. As a matter of fact, the addition of one further specialist-a professional cat beller-would have made the youthful spitballers look pretty good after all. That's generally...
...most important choices was still unofficial at the end of last week, but Nixon left little doubt that he would appoint California Lieut. Governor Robert Finch as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Finch, 43, one of Nixon's oldest friends and political associates, will be no ordinary Cabinet member. He will oversee Nix on's entire domestic program. Finch may also eventually head a new agency. Nixon has tentative plans to ask Congress to combine HEW with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, forming a new Department of Human Resources. The purpose of the merger would...
After the election, there was little doubt that Finch, if he wished, could become a member of the Cabinet. The question that remained was one of his own political ambitions. What he really wanted was to return to California and succeed the ailing Senator George Murphy in 1970. But Murphy told Finch that he intended to run for a second term. Blocked at home, Finch decided to cast his lot once more with Nixon...
...like so many pigeons around the statue in Moscow's Pushkin Square. His poetry began to show the strain of his public posturings. Increasingly facile and bombastic, his work declined in quality in proportion to his rise as a political personality. It gave him some moments of self-doubt, as when he wrote...
Anil Nayar, at number one, was the only player to lose a game, but the outcome of his match was never in doubt as Nayar seemed to be toying with the scrambling Amherst captain...