Word: drives
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...final communiqué his aides put in a few words, which the Russians did not bother to object to, in favor of discussing a "thinning out" of troops along the Iron Curtain. This was designed to take some of the steam out of Labor's election-year drive for "disengagement" in Central Europe. Without reading it, the two chiefs of government rushed through the signing of the final communiqué. When Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd remonstrated, Khrushchev replied: "Time is money. We have officials for reading the texts...
...journeyings Author Sack, 30, visited the Middle European principality of Liechtenstein, where he was the near-victim of an explosion in a salami-skin factory; learned in Sharja on the Arabian peninsula that the selling price of a slave girl is $270; gambled for low stakes with Cadillac-driving smugglers in Andorra, the tiny domain perched in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin...
...school at both Heidelberg and Grenoble ("I wanted to learn French and German, but didn't until somewhat later") Sigmund came to Harvard, and attended GSAS in political theory along with Miles, Hoffman, Brzezinski, and Mavrinac. The next year ("I spent the summer as a car hop in a drive-in restaurant") he began assisting in Gov 1, and the year following was given residence at Dunster and additional work with Gov 106. Then after his third year here he received a grant for study towards his thesis--study which would take him back to Europe. And Sigmund did return...
...tactic or as a contingent result of their campaign. Yet even allowing that they may consider the urgency of their appeal more imperative than the success of the Program, their sincertiy about not wishing to hurt the Program is open to question when they solicit for their own fund drive...
Bank president George Macomber said yesterday that the proposed branch would include a drive-in window. The added facility "would be a great convenience" to city and University people, he said...