Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright's certitude riled at least one fellow committee member. "We are not a military people," protested Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee, an Administration loyalist on Viet Nam. "I just cannot quite buy the allegation that we have heard here that great military power induces arrogance and self-righteousness. I resent that as an American...
...Adam Smith's phrase, "a people of customers." And in the affluent 1960's the voice of the customer is increasingly being heard and heeded. It is a predominantly feminine voice, since American women buy an estimated 75% of all goods and services. Thus it was a characteristically canny decision on Lyndon Johnson's part not only to decree the new post of Special Presidential Assistant on Consumer Affairs in January 1964 but also to appoint a woman as the first holder of that office. Her name is Mrs. Esther Peterson, and if gimmickry, guff and guile...
...said she would be quite willing to discuss the matter with Mrs. Bunting if the Jubilee Committee wanted her to, but that she understood the Committee was not unhappy with her decision. Mrs. Bunting said last night she had heard nothing about the planned blanket party...
...heard the shouts came out of his house and saw Benson, badly beaten. Before aiding him, he asked for Benson's bursar's card as there had evidently been recent street-fighting in the area...
Died. William H. Olson, 25, Cornell graduate ('65) and Peace Corpsman since last June who taught science in the Ethiopian village of Adi Ugri; after being attacked by a crocodile while standing waist-deep in the muddy Baro River near Gambela, Ethiopia. Five fellow corpsmen heard Olson shout and saw the beast pull him under; next day police found and shot the crocodile...