Word: herds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riding Herd. Two recent Additions to Johnson's staff also are being eyed closely by the others, since their roles are not yet clear. Douglass Cater, 40, former national affairs editor of The Reporter magazine, is expected to provide long-range thinking on foreign policy, will work with Bundy-although by no means at Bundy's request. Princeton History Professor Eric Goldman, 48, although not a fulltime aide, is an idea man who is supposed to draw upon the nation's intellectual talents...
...meal did not sit well. In a wistful, almost clumsy way, he tells how he was plagued by dark night thoughts. "Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring and heard the pipes of the man with his herd of goats and gone out and bought the racing paper. But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty nor sudden money, nor the moonlight nor right nor wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight...
...give me time." Continued he, looking squarely at the union leaders: "I'm new on this job. I'm coming to you now for the first time. I urge you to give me the opportunity to give you good-faith bargaining. I will personally promise to ride herd over the negotiations and see that there is good-faith bargaining...
...Woody Herman's resuscitated band is so good that not even the great "First Herd" that Herman organized during World War II could have matched it. The aggregation speaks in a shout (as a good band should), and the rhythm section that propels it-Bassist Chuck Andrus, Drummer Jake Hanna and Pianist Nat Pierce-has enough drive and distinction to make three-quarters of an excellent quartet. All 15 players are occasional soloists, and Woody, at 50, yields to their youth. "I just duck and get out of the way," he says. > Lionel Hampton, 50, has always been...
...been forced to build $2,800,000 worth of multilevel parking garages, plus other parking areas, which all take in $964,000 a year in fees. Yet this costly effort provides only 10,486 campus spaces for 38,800 students and teachers, and a 60-man staff has to herd U.C.L.A. cars in and out like SAC bombers on a red alert...