Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school season begins, Senior Editor William Forbis and Education Editor Robert Shnayerson were reminded of all the stories last spring about the difficulties of foreign students studying in the U.S. An eager new batch of foreign students were arriving; how did those who had returned home now feel? Queries went out to correspondents in seven foreign capitals (three in Asia, three in Latin America, and one in the Middle East). Interviews turned up a variety of recalled experiences-both hardships and pleasures-that add up to an interesting story called Welcome, Stranger. Many students had complaints to make, but surprisingly...
...station and a parking lot in addition to the restaurant-and to get back into politics. In Best Man Foster Furcolo, Organizer O'Brien had a ready candidate. Having come up through the wards, Furcolo was ready for the big time, and O'Brien was eager to handle his campaign for Congress. With his usual attention to detail, he gridded the Second Massachusetts District into 60 units, recruited a corps of "secretaries," and kept a swarm of volunteers busy mailing campaign letters to their friends...
...Kennedy team, O'Brien was and is more than a skillful political organizer. He has the experience and understanding to serve as a bridge between the Democratic Old Guard and the New Frontier. The bright, eager young men around Jack Kennedy have always baffled and often offended the Skeffingtons of Massachusetts; but Larry O'Brien can talk to politicians in their own language and win them over. "He was the essential transition man for us with the Old Guard," says Bobby Kennedy. At the same time, O'Brien was an invaluable professor of political science...
...because he will not practice "onesided neutrality" in the manner of Laos' Red Prince Souphanouvong. His desire to preserve Cambodian neutrality now takes the form of wanting the West to be stronger, for he believes that Communism is on the rise in Southeast Asia, and he is eager to find a counterbalance...
...crimp in the $500 million-a-year business of testimonial advertising. Does Arthur Godfrey really use Sucaryl? Does Comedian Tom Poston actually sip Heublein martinis? Is it a fact that New York Giants' Quarterback Charley Conerly deodorizes himself with Trig? If the FTC vigorously enforces its policy, an eager world may yet learn the answers to all these questions and more...