Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finish the remaining 15 months of his four-year term-a South American rarity-that his sudden death left the government in confusion. Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, 43, hurried to Quemado Palace at the news -and was denied admission by guards who did not recognize him. "Let him in," barked an officer. "He is the President." Army Chief Alfredo Ovando, who with Barrientos had overthrown Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964 (Barrientos won an election in 1966), was in Washington on a visit. The U.S. Air Force immediately offered him a C140 jet to fly home quickly. While Siles...
...that his present role is tentative and tormented." Now that he is back in Cambridge after three years as Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Wood says: "It was a sobering but not a corrupting experience. The alternative in a big, complex society is to let the programs and policies be formulated by intuition, by interest groups, by the feelings of politicians who are too busy to focus much attention on the problems...
...conducting courses, so he practiced with amateur orchestras around London. When he approached Sir Adrian Boult, the doyen of British conductors, Boult offered to become his patient if he would stick to medicine. Instead, Bialoguski took a master class in conducting with Franco Ferrara in Siena, Italy. Eventually, Boult let Bialoguski rehearse the New Philharmonia in Beethoven's Prometheus overture. He did so well that the orchestra agreed to last week's concert...
...write a book? I don't know. I'm just writing it. You're just reading it. Let's not worry about...
...hopes to answer these questions in a report that is scheduled to be issued on Sept. 1. Lee DuBridge, President Nixon's science adviser and a member of the group,* has promised a "balanced program." What that means is not certain, but for their part, NASA officials have let it be known that they will be quite content to settle for some sort of balance between the practical and the visionary. Last week, in a report from its own advisory committee on goals for 1975 to 1985, the agency endorsed a program that would call for continued manned flight...