Word: interiorly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, alluding to Interior Secretary Walter Hickel's unfortunate comment that he did not favor "conservation for conservation's sake" and subsequent trouble receiving Senate confirmation, Nixon delivered a near-perfect one-liner. He was not, purred the President, "in favor of confirmation for confirmation's sake...
After his embroilment in the Nixon Administration's only serious appointment hassle, Walter Hickel was doubly confirmed: both in his new job as Secretary of the Interior and in his new respect for the power of disgruntled conservationists. Last week, in his first important action, Hickel named as his undersecretary a man who may well set the tone for his department. He is Russell E. Train, chairman of Nixon's pre-inaugural task force on resources and environment, and an internationally esteemed conservationist. The appointment drew praise from nearly every quarter, including the old Administration. Said Stewart Udall...
...entrance to the exhibit closely parallels the catalogue introduction. Huge interior photographs of Winthrop's New York apartment are displayed--the beautiful objects of his collection crowded into their original setting. Glass cases across from these photographs hold his undergraduate notebooks, a Christmas card from his art dealer, a letter to the National Gallery explaining why Winthrop was choosing to give his collection to Harvard instead of to it, and a bronze portrait of him executed by his daughter...
...Cabinet was hardly lolling abed either. Nixon scheduled the swearing-in ceremony for eleven of the twelve department heads for 8 a.m. (Interior Secretary Walter Hickel's confirmation was delayed by opposition from some Senate Democrats. He was sworn later in the week.) Perhaps to further his effort to boost the Cabinet's prestige, Nixon suggested that one of its members might run for President some day. After all, he pointed out, eight previous Presidents were Cabinet alumni.* But he warned: "If any of you is going to come through, we must get to work. It is time...
...method. In Prague, a pretty 18-year-old coed named Blanka Nachazelova died with her head in a gas oven. She left behind a note saying that she should have been Torch No. 2 but had chosen to use gas out of fear of the pain. The Czechoslovak Interior Ministry insisted that she had been forced to kill herself by unspecified other parties...