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...made him famous. In Senate speeches in August and October, Keating supplied facts and figures of the massive Soviet buildup in Cuba. The Kennedy Administration at first denied Keating's reports, then affirmed Keating in coming to dramatic confrontation with Russia. Ever since, Keating has been in the forefront of critics of the Ad ministration's Cuba policy...
Assuming the University deals properly with its undergraduates and graduates, what about the remaining experimenters? Using drugs for social rehabilitation is important, and likely to become more so; the University, on the forefront in so many other areas, would be negligent if it ignored this one. But perhaps it or the department in control can cultivate, through selection, investigators not less imaginative but more circumspect; investigators not less far-reaching in thought, but more willing properly to carry the responsibilities of informing and explaining...
This last remark brought Miller's show and our Boston back to the forefront of our mind. We said so. "We all like Boston as a city," the doctor told us. "And the show is certainly a hit. But thank goodness for a little Harvard leavening in the audience. A Boston night-time audience is like a matinee crowd anywhere else; and a Boston matinee audience is an advertisement for Medicare...
...three of these states automatically became presidential factors. By handsomely winning re-election in New York, Nelson Rockefeller stood as the front runner for his party's 1964 nomination. If Rocky slips, Michigan's George Romney and Pennsylvania's William Scranton could move to the forefront...
With the discovery of plutonium, Seaborg moved into the forefront of nuclear science. In 1942 he went to Chicago as one of the key figures in the development of the atom bomb, spent the war years directing chemical research at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory-under the Army's Manhattan Project. Seaborg was largely responsible for the chemical separation processes used in the manufacture of plutonium at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Richland, Wash., in the tense months before Hiroshima...