Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bottle of Chianti. Several times that morning, Fermi told Weil to pull the control rod out a little farther, six inches or a foot. Each time the radiation increased, only to level off again-still too much control rod. After lunch, Fermi ordered the rod withdrawn another foot. Again the radiation leveled off. Then another six inches. Still not enough. "Pull it out another foot," Fermi called. It was precisely...
Explains one associate: "He doesn't talk his ideas out, he talks them in." For a while, it amused De Gaulle to entertain assorted critics of his policies at lunch, and he often displayed enough personal charm to win them over. But he finally tired of the game, grumbling, "I'm not a bear to perform in a circus." Wednesday mornings at 10, the Cabinet gathers around a table covered with red cloth. De Gaulle has before him a dossier on the subject under discussion and will interrupt a Cabinet minister to stress details he thinks are being...
...Lunch over, De Gaulle finds time to read the first edition of the afternoon Le Monde as well as a chapter or two in a book. By 3, he is back in his office to receive more visitors...
Along with the desegregation of Atlanta's schools, lunch counters, and other public facilities, Galphin noted that Georgia itself has seen in the last year the abolishment of the county-unit system of primary voting. The system for years enabled staunch segregationists to be elected by favoring the rural counties over the more liberal urban vote. This summer, combined statewide vote tabulations resulted in the selection of the moderate Carl Sanders as the Democratic gubernatorial candidate over the radical segregationist Marvin Griffin...
...University has not yet made any decision about the care of Dudley students while the Holyoke Center is actually under construction. If no better arrangements can be made, Dudley men may have to eat lunch at the freshman Union until Lehman is ready for occupancy...