Word: livingstons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frankly Interested. To peddle the placebo, the Administration plucked old State Department Hand Livingston Merchant from retirement. To his surprise, MLF met with a surprisingly warm reception. Though some allied statesmen hemmed that its cost would prevent them from meeting U.S. requests to strengthen conventional forces, West Germany, Italy and Belgium were frankly interested. Last month Merchant actually succeeded in extracting a commitment from West Germany to pay 40% of the entire cost of the project...
...restiveness by giving its Allies greater responsibility for their own security, the U.S. made its most serious pitch yet to share the planning and control of atomic weapons in Europe with Europeans themselves. Before NATO's 15-member Permanent Council in Paris, President Kennedy's special envoy, Livingston Merchant, proposed creation of a multinational nuclear deterrent consisting of a fleet of surface ships equipped with the U.S. Polaris missile. Key provision of the plan is that the ships would be "multi-manned," i.e., their crews would be drawn from every NATO nation that would be willing to help...
Rising Tide. The league began in 1913 when some 15 members of B'nai B'rith, the Jewish service organization, gathered at the call of Chicago Lawyer Sigmund Livingston. They had concluded, as the league's charter states, that "for many years the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens have failed to meet this tendency [of antiSemitism] by any means save quiet criticism. But the tide has been rising until it calls for organized effort to stem it." Their immediate goal: "To stop, by appeals to reason and conscience, and if necessary by appeals to law, the defamation...
JAMES CARSWELL Livingston...
Speaking before Radcliffe seniors and their families. Woodworth drew together concepts from the works of Alfred North Whitehead, from the Bible, and from a biography of Coleridge by John Livingston Lowes. Perhaps the most important of these notions was that of "the habitual vision of greatness," which Woodworth took from Whitehead...