Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...January, the President declared: "With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms." For a long time, it seemed, the right people were not willing. After confidently predicting that U.S.-Soviet talks to limit arms would begin in August, the Administration heard mostly a series of hints, evasions and half-promises from Moscow. Finally, last week, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin paid a secret visit to the White House and informed Nixon that Moscow was ready to open preliminary discussions Nov. 17 in Helsinki...
...respond in personal terms, I can only say that this in no way fits with my experience of the Center. I have heard every kind of view expressed in its seminars, in its miscellaneous gatherings, and around the lunch table. In particular I have myself under the general auspices of the Center published one small book and a number of articles dealing with African affairs, on none of which have I ever had the faintest suggestion that they should reflect or embody and particular point of view...
...already begun to repay him for the violence that he has done it with his industry and technology. We have heard it all before, and it is a measure of our alienation that we ignore it: in the coming years, cities will suffocate; populations will starve; great forests will die, as will great rivers. The oceans may quit photosynthesizing. The plague will start again without the help of Fort Detrick. Mankind will riot. If the technocratic "knowledge explosion" is not ultimately radioactive, perhaps the end of the world will not come. But it will certainly come close...
...continuous on all fronts. Last night in the back room, Weenie Beanie was finishing up a two-day head-to-head gin rummy battle with an unknown card player from the west. Sadly pushing threc hundred-dollar bills into his opponent's pile of green paper, he was heard to remark, "I'm stuck so bad now, I can't stop...
...Harvard's NAC chapter meeting lastnight, some 60 members heard alternative plans for occupying another building-either the Center for International Affairs at Harvard or the ROTC building at Northeastern University- if the demonstration meets large-scale police opposition at M. I. T. on Tuesday...