Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find it difficult to accept that anyone in Mr. Kennedy's political situation would deliberately jeopardize his entire political future by acting as he did; had he not experienced shock at the time, could his actions have been deliberate? I am sure every reader must answer "no," or re-examine his ability to reason...
...assistants. The letters department also performs a less well-known task: answering the 150 or so letters a week from people requesting information-some additional bit of elaboration or an answer to a question. That is the demanding job for Marian Powers, Carla Lyddan and Mimi Olszewska, who find that unwrinkling readers' brows can put a furrow or two in their own. They do not, however, ghost term papers for students (January and February bring a flood of letters that start: "Please tell me everything about . . ."), help readers seeking financial advice or other special favors...
...example, gets $10,000 a year for expenses, but so far has had a hard time using it. The Nixons entertain so much that Agnew has been called on only once to throw an official dinner. The Agnews live in a four-bedroom Sheraton-Park Hotel suite, which they find adequate despite its obvious contrast with their previous quarters, the 54-room Maryland Governor's mansion in Annapolis. Their counterpart of San Clemente is the same paint-flecking seashore cottage in Maryland that they have rented for years. A big Saturday night at the Agnews' consists of Judy...
...precipitous exit that would gravely unnerve Washington's other Asian allies, or a no-holds-barred military policy that would exacerbate antiwar sentiment in the U.S. He must avoid the appearance of either a bug-out or intransigence. Without some cooperation from Hanoi, however, the U.S. may find itself hard put to avoid one or the other of those unappealing alternatives...
...Next Test. The likelihood that speculators will soon find another way to outgain stock-market averages is not great. Last week the stock market slowly extended a technical rally from its July 29th low of 801.96 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. The average rose 16.37 to close at 837.25. Brokers almost unanimously expect that the rally will give way soon to a new drop that will "test" the low. Opinion is divided about evenly on whether or not the market will pass that test...