Word: fore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lehigh ('25) he got an engineering background; he now keeps personal watch on M.I.T.'s railroad, metal and mining investments. He has an exemplary record as a Harvard Business School grad, a Wall Street banker, and as the manager of Cornell's endowment investments be fore joining M.I.T. in 1936 as an investment analyst. Within a year, he was made a full trustee. Isaacs is mostly responsible for recruiting M.I.T.'s young and bright research staff...
Fulbright disagrees. While he does not advocate recognition of Red China, he favors probing "for areas of peaceful contact" and hopes, like onetime Ambassador to Russia George Kennan and others, that as a new generation of Chinese leaders comes to the fore, Peking will grow more tractable...
...Pilot. In Lyndon Johnson's eventful presidency, the gravest crisis of all was the first. No Vice President be fore him ever witnessed the assassination of a President; none ever had the presidency thrust upon him in such brutal circumstances. Johnson was shocked and staggered. But even as he sat in an anteroom of Parkland Memorial Hos pital in Texas, he took full command of himself and of the office for which he had been honing his talents all his life...
...group attacked the militia garrison assisted by machine gun and recoilless rifle fire from the boats, thus pinning down most of the troops. An other group then fought its way to the radar station and destroyed most of the equipment with antitank weapons. The action lasted 55 minutes be fore the commandos escaped safely out to sea and back to "a secret base somewhere in the Caribbean." His own group suffered no losses, Artime claimed; but he could not be sure about Castro casualties. "We have shown," said Artime, "that we can pull the tail of the Russians...
...What One May. For months he had been planning to call a conference of Communist parties in order to thresh out the ideological split in the international Communist movement. But be fore he could even send off his invitations, Peking further complicated the whole affair by refusing to attend and promising to keep off the list of invited guests its allies in the ever-growing Sino-Soviet squabble...