Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the tempest has come, and largely gone, two dangers must be avoided. First, no attempt should be made to exploit the general excitement as a lever, either to sway the Faculty which retains final control, or to stimulate custodial employees in the Houses to invade students' privacy. The inevitable barrage of letters from University alumni and donors should be allowed to coerce...
...into Kennedy's own Boston backyard. Speaking to a Republican dinner, he said: "Even the liberals have to recognize that what we have now in Washington is a would-be king and a want-to-be dynasty, not a President and a party." Blasting Kennedy for failure to exploit the "great cracks" that have appeared "across the entire slave empire of the Communist tyrants," he ad-libbed: "I'm beginning to wonder about this man who just three years ago downgraded the idea that we could achieve peace through visits and talks and goodwill missions...
...event, neither reason applies to the students under indictment. Their safety was guaranteed by the Cuban government which was anxious to exploit their trip for propaganda purposes. Also, the Cubans paid the entire cost of the junket. Far from bringing dollars to Castro, the trip involved an outflow of pesos from Cuba. By contrast, newspapermen and others whom the State Department allows to go to Cuba spend money there...
...Brissac, had been strained for a decade. Last June the two stunned Liliane by quietly selling their Schneider shares (about 8% of the total) to a Belgian group led by Baron Edouard Empain, 49, head of Belgium's big Electrorail holding company. The baron, whose family helped exploit the Congo for Belgium and promoted the Paris Metro system, is a grand-scale investor and industrialist with holdings in utilities, chemicals and electrical equipment. Last year he bought 20% of Mexico's Cesar Balsa hotel-and-construction group, whose properties include Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel. Already...
...comedies, The Private Ear and The Public Eye, are failures in spite of generally good performances and the direction of Peter Wood. The Private Ear fails because it is a blatantly uninteresting and unfunny play. The Public Eye fails, though less completely, because it bungles its chance to exploit an amusing situation and a potentially fascinating trio of characters...