Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presidential aides insisted that the resignations did not mean that the U.S. seeks to downgrade or break up the talks. But no successor to Lodge was named, and one White House source added that "I don't think we'll be in any hurry to replace him." That leaves a knowledgeable and able career diplomat, Philip Charles Habib, in charge of the delegation. He has been with the talks since they started in the Johnson Administration under Ambassador Averell Harriman and, says Lodge, "no one knows more about the issues than Phil-and no one can read between...
...demand-eliminate the helpers' category, and promote all the painters' helpers-becomes particularly questionable when one considers what this will mean in the future to black applicants for jobs at Harvard. If the helper status-or some form of lower entrance status-does not exist, the black applicants will have to compete directly for journeyman status with white workers who, being free of the handicap of discrimination, would presumably be more skilled. This would maximize both the handicap of black workers, and the hostility from white workers created by any preference given to blacks...
...delays over clearing the library site mean. however, that Kennedy Library officials are now faced with a difficult decision. During the past years, the estimated cost of building the library has risen by 35 to 50 per cent. The $8.5 million already collected for the library construction will not be enough to pay for the facilities originally planned...
...What Withdrawal Would Really Mean" [Oct. 24], you keep referring to "our defeat" in Viet Nam. I can't recall one operation there that was a military defeat for U.S. forces. For years now V.C. and N.V.A. troops have operated with complete freedom from staging areas in Laos, Cambodia and the DMZ, only to be decimated once they fielded forces in R.V.N. Our forces have allowed the enemy to stockpile vast amounts of food, weapons and ordnance, and once feeling the full capacity reached, moved in to capture and destroy these stores. Our forces, according to General Giap...
...Mean while. Koerner, Pottetti, and Heyburn were running together about 30 places behind. "I' just never had anything," said Pottetti, who was seventh last year and was expected to finish near the top today, Koerner was 24th, and Heyburn was 26th, right in front of Penn's Julio Piazza, who has beaten all three at some point this fall...