Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, Johnson went out of his way to declare that the U.S. is ready, willing, and indeed anxious to negotiate about Viet Nam with "any government at any place at any time." He said that he had sent the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, to New York with a letter requesting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to use all his best offices to try to achieve a peace settlement. He even mentioned the terms laid down by Hanoi last April, terms then indignantly rejected by Secretary of State Rusk, as conditions that should not even...
...aides. "I told McNamara that he's my righthand punch," he says. "I told him to take the power of this country and with it keep our word and our honor and protect the lives of our boys to the maximum extent possible. I told Rusk and Goldberg that they're my lefthand punch...
...Although Goldberg's background bears little similarity to his predecessors'-Edward Stettinius, Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge, Adlai Stevenson-all of whom were well-versed in foreign affairs before they went to the U.N., it seemed little cause for concern. Arthur Goldberg once said of the art of collective bargaining: "The main thing you must have is the ability to realize there are two sides to the story, and so to be generally calm and courteous in the handling of people in inflamed situations, but at the same time not to relinquish the position of leadership, which...
...could ask more than that of the U.S.'s new man at the U.N., and at week's end the Senate quickly gave unanimous consent to Goldberg's appointment. Quite clearly President Johnson's immediate aim in naming Goldberg was to put his negotiation skills to work toward solving the U.N.'s crippling financial crisis-caused largely by the Soviet Union's refusal to pay its part of the U.N.'s peace-keeping costs. Last week Goldberg said that he was well aware of "the gravity of the constitutional crisis facing...
...orbit in the new world of pharmaceuticals. Three months ago the company brought out an appetite-suppressing prescription drug, Pre-Sate, which has already taken a substantial bite of that $60 million-a-year market. This month it won five U.S. patents on a "Robot Chemist," a Rube-Goldberg-like device that automatically analyzes up to 120 samples per hour of anything from blood to industrial oil by mixing them with laboratory reagents, measuring the resulting chemical change, and recording the results on adding-machine tape or computer cards. Now the company is beginning national distribution of a new shampoo...