Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parochial and private schools to the White House's education program. By his tactics on behalf of the loan provision, he helped defeat the Administration's school legislation. White House aides claim that they hold no grudge against him for the school-bill defeat; they also insist that relations between McCormack and the President are good...
Without exception, companies that use business games profess to regard them merely as training devices, insist that the results are not taken into account in hiring or promotions. But most players take such assurances with a grain of salt and, because they believe the results can influence their careers, grow grimly serious. "It is amazing," reports Remington Rand Executive Jim Evans, who conducts games on the Univac. "You'll see grown men cry when they come out with a loss...
Academic Mistake. Through much of 1944, U.S. Ambassador to Britain John Winant pleaded with Washington to plan ahead, to insist on detailed provisions for Western access to Berlin as part of the occupation-zone system being engineered by EAC-the European Advisory Commission (the U.S., Britain, Russia), to which Winant was U.S. delegate. But the War Department opposed a specific agreement on Berlin access routes, argued that it would be best to leave the problem to the soldiers on the scene. When General Lucius Clay, acting as General Eisenhower's representative, finally met with Soviet General Georgy Zhukov...
...roomy, overstuffed and not necessarily stylish chairs, because all the Kennedys seem not so much to sit in chairs as to bivouac in them. Since most members of the family are prodigious readers, reading lamps are scattered everywhere. Another must in every room is an electric clock. "I always insist on this," says Mother Rose Kennedy, "because then no one has an excuse for being late for meals." One real sign of luxury in the Kennedy homes is the platoon of servants necessary to keep things straightened up; none of the family have ever been especially concerned with general tidiness...
...above), Banda announced that whites who will not go along with African rule "will find there is no place for them in Nyasaland." He reiterated his threat to pull his country out of Welensky's Central African Federation "as soon as possible," and added ominously: "If they insist on us staying in the Federation, they'd better bring their soldiers here...