Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether the President had merely expressed a devout hope or set out a firm plan, they agreed on one point: Nixon is worried that a continuation of the war could destroy Republican candidates in the 1970 midterm congressional elections. Said one participant: "The political objective, the national interest and the desire of the American people all happily coincide...
...political problem for the Pentagon, and last week Defense Secretary Melvin Laird attempted to demonstrate that there is some movement toward reform. He named an in dependent committee to review the big department's management, research, procurement and decision-making operations. He also anticipated complaints of conflicts of interest. The year-long study will be headed by Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, 59, chief executive of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who is, significantly, a man free of any military-industrial connections...
After he sold his controlling interest in the Chicago White Sox in 1961, Bill Veeck never stopped itching to "get involved again with people." In his best-selling 1962 autobiography Veeck-As in Wreck, he vowed: "Look for me under the arc lights, boys, I'll be back." Now, thumping the promotional drums as loudly as ever, the old Barnum of baseball has returned-but not to baseball. He is the new president and part owner of East Boston's Suffolk Downs race track...
...several years," observed New York's Current Literature magazine in 1908, "the art world of Paris has shown interest in the work of Henry O. Tanner, an American painter who has done much toward strengthening that high position won for us by Sargent and Whistler. In America, recognition of Tanner's genius has been retarded by the fact that he is a Negro...
...between instant saintliness and instant power, Spender-like most other observers-finds dangerously ill-informed. He is inclined to agree with Raymond Aron's judgment: "More sympathetic than the Communists, they are their intellectual inferiors." In matters of hunger, illiteracy and overpopulation, "they seem to take very little interest." "Students who attempt to revolutionise society by first destroying the university," Spender adds in a warning, "are like an army which begins a war by wrecking its own base...