Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a golfing holiday in the Cameron highlands, bluntly told him that the only solution to the racial tensions was the secession of Malaysia. Stunned, Lee argued for a looser federation as a compromise solution. But the Tunku was adamant. In Singapore, Lee went on TV to explain Singapore's expulsion. As he described his "anguish" at signing the secession paper, he broke into tears, an exhibition that startled those viewers who think of him as a brilliant and impassive calculating machine. The city rallied strongly to its leader. The stock exchange vaulted and in some neighborhoods Chinese merchants...
...advisers -- partly, no doubt, out of magnanimity, but primarily because he knew that the ultimate decision and responsibility were his alone. Mr. Schlesinger himself indicates that the New Frontier became easily exasperated at the "sentimentality" which questioned the principles and ends of American foreign policy. This may help to explain why the advice of Senator Fulbright and Ambassador Bowles was not taken, and may even throw light on why Mr. Schlesinger resorted to memoranda to record his own opposition...
Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska asked Fortas to explain his part in the Walter Jenkins case last year. Fortas recalled that Jenkins, then a top White House aide, had called to say he was in "terrible trouble." Jenkins had, in fact, been arrested on a charge involving a homosexual act, but, Fortas said, Jenkins was so distraught that he couldn't give him a clear story. "1 could not get an answer," said Fortas. "But I was desperately concerned for this man's wife and six children." Fortas and Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford went...
High points go to readers of biography, particularly if the book is longwinded and the subject long dead. Top scorer at many dinner tables this fall will be the man who has read L. Pearce Williams' Michael Faraday (531 pages) and can laconically explain how the 19th century English scientist contributed to Einstein's General Field Theory. For the average nonreader, however, the safest summer investment might well be one of the numerous British novelists who produce short, superbly written books on subjects of total inconsequence: Octogenarian Frank Swinnerton, for example, who learned to write when Proust...
...successfully improved the exchange's once-tarnished image since he took over three years ago, called Smith's charges an "appallingly unjustified, unfair and inaccurate attack." Smith showed "a lack of understanding of the subjects involved," said Etherington, and exchange officers had unsuccessfully tried to explain to him how the specialist system works. At week's end Smith issued another attack on the specialist system, confirmed that he wants his stock to go back to the over-the-counter market, where there are no tours or free lunches but where Wolverine's stock for two years...