Word: macmillan
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...remember that before I went to see Khrushchev in 1959, Harold Macmillan told me that the Soviet leaders want to be accepted as members of the club. That's a cheap price to pay. They should be treated with respect. But they are not affected in the least by how nicely you treat them...
...embassy in honor of the 200th anniversary of British-American diplomatic relations. The menu underscored the conviviality of the visit: poached salmon "Nancy," followed by filet of veal "special relationship" and raspberry mousse "Margaret." In his toast, the President mentioned the close friendships of Churchill and Roosevelt, of Harold Macmillan and John Kennedy, then said, "I'd like to add two more names to that list: Thatcher and Reagan." Thatcher broke up Reagan with several quips, including her lament that, despite sharing the same goals, she could not imitate his "wonderful American English accent, 'You ain't seen nothing...
...Lucy Macmillan and Manya Deehr placed 31st and 30th, respectively in the women's 7.5 K cross-country race and the Harvard relay team earned an eighth-place finish...
...country were opposed to--to--bribery. It is a harsh term. I do not like to use it." John T. Noonan Jr., 58, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, feels quite differently about the term. In a monumental new book bluntly titled Bribes (Macmillan; $29.95), he applies the word to figures as distinguished as Francis Bacon and Thomas a Becket, and to a whole array of U.S. Presidents: Monroe, Garfield, Johnson, Nixon. Noonan's 5,000-year chronicle of scandals is deplorably entertaining, but what is still more interesting is his demonstration of how the whole concept...
...women's nordic team was even more successful than the men's squad, at least in the individual event, earning a first (Manya Deehr), third (Lucy Macmillan) and eighth (Joy Clendenning...