Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muckraking had not General Motors inadvertently created nationwide sympathy for him in 1966 when clumsy detectives hired by G.M. tried to dig up dirt on his private life in hopes of discrediting him. Now Nader's vigorous campaigns are aided by a burgeoning force of Congressmen eager to cash in on his crusades. Nader is only too happy to feed them his meticulously accurate intelligence...
...have money," he told his guests, "and you will have your share if you join us. If not, we will go on without you." The chiefs were eager to help, especially since the Republicans' Egyptian defenders had been ordered home. They quickly agreed to mobilize their tribes, and to seal the agreement they devoured a great mound of lamb and rice proffered by the prince. Last week the Royalist siege of San'a began...
...which may partially explain the extraordinary availability of important guests, who seem as eager as Greenwood to show their faces on TV. Last week's was Urban League Director Whitney Young; before that the program offered Bayard Rustin, Senators Charles Percy and Wayne Morse, Billy Graham and Walter Heller. Next week Greenwood has filming sessions scheduled with Bobby Kennedy, Jack Benny and Conrad Hilton. For next month, when Greenwood goes to Europe, he has talks arranged with West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt and, pending approval of the questions, Charles de Gaulle...
...whatever specific strategy the Republicans choose, it is now fairly certain that G.O.P. leaders have concluded that the country is sick of the war and eager to disengage from Vietnam in some manner. This does not augur well for the President either in his primary races against Senator McCarthy or in his fall campaign against the G.O.P. should he be renominated...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, eager to cut down on air pollution and city traffic headaches, last week endorsed a snappy 9-ft. "minicar" that would be about half as long as today's intermediate Chevrolets and Fords, create one-tenth of the pollution. Developed under a $299,995 HUD grant to the University of Pennsylvania with help from General Motors, the three-passenger, 100-mile-range "hybrid" could whiz along highways at 60 m.p.h. on a small gasoline engine, switch to a battery-powered electric motor for tooling around town...