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...weeks ago, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked William Rogers, the Secretary of State-designate, to elicit Richard Nixon's views on the U.S. stand. Rogers complied and later advised the State Department that the incoming administration fully supported the compromise advocated by Johnson's outgoing team...
...then there was Canned Heat who elicit the same hushed and tense quiet from the audience that Havens does, but by beating it into submission as if through the brute impact of a natural force, sound system bursting, the drums hammering out the rigid boogie beat, guitars searing loud, and climactic. If Havens sends spiny threads to each individual listener pulling them close to him, Canned Heat throws out a broad blanket of all-enveloping sound to huddle under...
After the student finishers reading a text on the screen, he presses a key on the teletype to signal that he is ready to continue. His mechanical teacher then fires a question at him and waits for a response. The correct answer typed back will elicit a "Good" or "That's fine" followed by more questions or new material on the slide screen. If the student's answer is incorrect he'll get a "No" with an explanation and perhaps a mild chiding, "What are you going to do when we get to the hard questions...
...periodically for a department, a group of departments, or related specialties in order to review policies and problems, discuss anticipated vacancies, canvass eligible candidates, and endorse a list of names for possible appointment. Such general ad hoc committees, not confined to the review of a single recommendation, could also elicit independent judgment about the needs of a whole area of knowledge, suggest expansion into areas in which talent is available, and recommend withdrawal from other areas. This procedure should reduce the total number of committees and provide advice which would ordinarily permit greater speed in extending a formal invitation...
...machinations of Radcliffe student politics--generally monotonous and frequently trivial--usually elicit either apathy or ridicule from Harvard and Radcliffe students. But the present RUS constitution fight has taken on an importance far greater than the specific issues involved. The Radcliffe. Trustees, by their unreasonable and seemingly arbitrary inflexibility, have made the dispute symbolic of larger principles of student rights and Administration integrity...