Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistake, and his vociferous complaints were interpreted as a slur on the hotel's cuisine. Washington Correspondent David Lee made the mistake of lighting a cigarette while he posed a question about preventive medicine. "Don't ask me about preventive medicine when people like you, who obviously know better, smoke two packs of cigarettes a day," snapped Dr. Philip Lee, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. End of that part of the interview...
...cooperation in advancing Britain's nuclear technology. The British would like to fit multiple-target nuclear warheads to their Polaris missiles, as the U.S. has already done with some of its intercontinental missiles. Since the U.S. is increasingly sensitive to French charges of favoring Britain with nuclear know-how that it denies to others, the British regard the warhead question as a key indicator of how freely Nixon will continue military cooperation...
...against the idea that the President should have discretionary power to adjust tax rates in order to deflate or reflate the economy over short periods. "In the first place, people are entitled to be heard when taxes are to be increased. I don't know any place in the White House where the President could have a hearing room big enough to hear those who would want to discuss increases in taxes. But the main thing in my mind is that I just don't feel that taxes can be raised and lowered, season by season, or that...
...does not intend to request another chance to testify before the court. Says he: "I've had my say and I'll let it stand. The old image has been bruised a bit in the press this past week or so. But the people who really count know the truth and they're going to weigh what they heard in court...
Nubile Young Girls. Titillating though the published details were, le tout Paris concentrated its gossip on the high personages reportedly involved. Almost everyone seemed to know the name of the former Cabinet minister's wife, for instance. It all stimulated memories of the "Ballets Roses" organized during the late '50s by Andre Le Troquer, at the time President of the National Assembly. Le Troquer made a habit of wrapping nubile young girls in antique carpets and delivering the bundles to aging revelers. But that was a long time past. The choicest scandal is always the present scandal...