Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same title in Montgomery. Each has an equal say in management and draws the same "salary" (one-half percent of pre-tax profits, less $25,000, which amounted to some $163,000 for each in the year just closed). Explains J. E.: "I'm the conservative element, the long-range planner. A. D. is always the aggressive expansionist. Austin specializes in the big stores, and Tine is the personality...
Only Whisker-Deep. Machismo is still the element that separates Latin American leaders from the also-rans. In pre-Castro Cuba, the army of Dictator Fulgencio Batista respected its leader almost as much for his manliness and his brood of illegitimate children as for the military daring that first brought him to power in 1933. Castro is another story. Though he has the whiskery look of virility, and was considered muy macho for invading Cuba with only 81 men, his he-man rating fell sharply after he let Khrushchev pull out his missiles, and his love life, in the opinion...
...senators posed a question: If the treaty had not already been initialed, would you be for it? Said Army General Earle G. Wheeler, "I would probably have come up with the same decision." The Navy's Admiral David L. McDonald claimed that it "was not a decisive element." Declared Marine General David M. Shoup, "I had access to the words of the treaty before it was initialed and I was in favor of its being initialed...
Prof. Trypanis emphasized yesterday that America is the "only civilized country in the world without a chair in modern Greek studies." He said a student "cannot understand either the culture of the Balkans or the Near East" without understanding "the modern Greek element there." Trypanis apologized for being "materialistic," and added that with United States interests in those two areas growing continually, the establishment of a chair was increasingly important...
Thus traditionally battle lines are drawn: the Administration continues to insist on the equal accommodations provision of Title II, the Southern senators continue to promise a filibuster against the whole bill. Into this picture is injected a new element, the moderate Southerner, who is beginning to take a new look at the whole situation. These moderates are the businessmen who are achieving progressive integration in such cities more local political influence. The group also includes Congressmen from the old Confederacy who feel legislation is inevitable and are ready to vote for a fairly stiff civil rights bill, even...