Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naming and renaming was a natural reaction; witness a list of Garfield High Schools and McKinley Junior Highs as long as the Lincoln Tunnel. But in the rush to memorialize Ken nedy, many worthy governments and citizens' groups seemed eager to wipe out one historical name with another. In Beirut, Lebanon, Georges Clemenceau Street became John F. Kennedy Street; in Montigny-les-Metz, 175 miles east of Paris, the Rue Jeanne d'Arc was rechristened Rue J. F. Kennedy. A New Hampshire state legislator proposed changing the name of 5,535-ft. Mount Clay (after Henry) to Mount...
Last week Inonu resigned. His dilemma: neither major party can rule separately, since each lacks a parliamentary majority, and neither wants to rule jointly, since that experiment was tried once before, lasted seven months and accomplished nothing. None of the smaller parties seem eager to join another coalition, either. New national elections? Nobody is enthusiastic over that idea...
...iron whim. During his last three years in office, President Diem revoked the licenses of a dozen papers that, for one reason or another, had offended the presidential sensibilities. But where the Diem regime concentrated on whipping the press into line, the new junta government seems eager to flood the country with newspapers. Last week 44 dailies were publishing in Saigon-and the government has received 126 other license applications...
Harvard seemed eager to make Yale pay for this second mistake when John Dockery carried to the Yale 15. That was as far as Yale would let the Crimson go. After three futile rushes Harvard had to call in field goal kicker John Hartranft, but his toe was as cold as the rest of the offense and Yale took possession of the ball...
...other hand, the large public schools are "eager to alleviate the tremendous pressure" that builds up during the final year, Mrs. Stimpson explained. They tend to assume that successful early decision candidates will maintain their academic standards until high school graduation...