Word: majored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost everything he discussed with the leaders of Asia, President Nixon found it necessary to deal in immediacies: a shooting war, changing alliances, a U.S. troop withdrawal that has already begun. By contrast, in Rumania the President had almost no major questions of the moment on his mind. As the first U.S. chief executive to visit a Communist nation since the cold war began, Nixon last week broke diplomatic ground just by arriving in Bucharest. "We seek normal relations with all countries, regardless of their domestic systems," the President assured Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. The two leaders thus began with...
...Kennedy had hinted long before the death of Mary Jo that he might not run in 1972, no one took his privately expressed doubts very seriously. Aside from his name, vigor, personal attractiveness and political aggressiveness, Kennedy also seemed the leader best equipped to unite his party's major factions. He is probably the only Democrat of national stature who has both a strong following among blacks and young people and firm ties with many Old-Politics professionals. He has become an increasingly articulate spokesman on major issues, most recently...
...Thursday Lecture Series -- George Huntston Williams, "The Christian Attitudes towards Nature: an Historical Assessment of the Major and a Minor Tradition and the Problem of Conservation." Emerson Hall...
STRATFORD, CONN.--If took an awfully long time for Russia to make major contributions to world literate and music. But when its time came, in the 1820's and 1830's, Russia exploded into global significance with a dazzling roster of great figures in both fields...
Bill Veeck signed a midget to play major league baseball. He gave a yacht to one of the outstanding pitchers on his team. This spring various lucky bettors received prizes at Suffolk Downs--from a case of champagne to a steer. It is unfortunate that a man of such rare promotional genius should be fettered by local politics. In the end Veeck's way will bring more money to the state coffers than anyone else's way, and that is what the state is after anyway...