Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Family News. The successful week left the President in an eager mood to get up to Cape Cod, which he had not visited since Thanksgiving. He packed up Jackie, Caroline and John Jr. and flew off for Squaw Island off Hyannisport, where the summer White House will be set up in a seven-bedroom house owned by Tenor Morton Downey...
...more concerned than ever over the medical problems involved with tobacco. The A.M.A.'s new president. Dr. George M. Fister, of Ogden, Utah, announced in his inaugural address that, to guide physicians, the A.M.A. would start a year-long study of smoking and disease. The American Cancer Society, eager to snuff out smoking among college students, began a campaign to persuade university presidents to ban tobacco company sponsorship of radio and TV broadcasts of intercollegiate athletic events...
...Morocco, the government placed restrictions on Jewish emigration until last October, and fortnight ago closed down the office of the agency in Casablanca that chartered ships and planes for Jews eager to leave the country. Although Jews who leave for Israel are officially forbidden to return to their homes, there is little overt anti-Semitism in Morocco. But emigration goes on, and businessmen in Casablanca complain that they cannot find Jewish labor. "Morocco is down the drain for us," says one Jewish cafe owner...
...quarter-century later, Lewis Carroll, as the world by then called Dodgson, still remembered "that golden afternoon almost as clearly as if it were yesterday and the three eager faces, hungry for news of fairy-land." There had been many such outings, and many other reports from fairyland for ten-year-old Alice and her sisters. But on this day. Alice Liddell recalled, "the stories must have been better than usual," and she pleaded to the lonely, gawky mathematics master...
...m.p.h. between Basel and Hook of Holland. Its six cars offer the latest in air-conditioned high living-roomy six-seat compartments, contoured reclining chairs, a glass-walled observation car for Rhineland castle watching, cocktail lounge and gourmet restaurant, plus telephone service and a trilingual secretary for eager businessmen...