Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over his shoulder to a Secret Service man: "I'm all shaved, so just tell them to lay out the tails and white tie." He made it to the Mayflower Hotel affair almost on time, looking fresh, with an optimistic reply to the question on everyone's mind. Passing Nixon in the reception line, Pakistan's Ambassador Mohammed AH asked about President Eisenhower. "Much better," said Nixon. "I saw him today. The King saw him, too. He's much better...
...University of Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute, with his knowledge of behavioral science (Nixon is convinced that the U.S. is substantially ahead of Russia in the field). All the time he was acquiring such knowledge, Nixon brought to the job the analytical and sternly disciplined mind that has made him, in just eleven years in public life, one of the nation's most seasoned veterans in public affairs...
...time of last year's independence declaration, when he was trying to make a reputation as a special friend of the Arabs, Franco secretly agreed to cede Southern Morocco to the Moroccans some time in the future. He has since changed his mind. Reason: prospectors have found indications that the sandy wastes of Spanish Sahara, like the French Sahara farther east, may hold oil, a resource to be found nowhere else in Spanish territory. At week's end. Franco rushed 3,500 more troops into Ifni and had beefed up his Spanish West Africa garrison...
...While FCC scanned the air waves for any trace of an adman's use of "subliminal perception" in a pitch to the viewer's subconscious mind (TIME, Nov. 18). one TV station announced that it has been trying the technique for two months. WTWO in Bangor, Me. superimposes the suggestion "Write W-TWO" once every eleven seconds on certain of its TV shows, in a flash too swift for conscious perception. The station promised to keep FCC posted on the experiment; so far, a spokesman admitted, the results in the station's mail volume have been...
...solve the graduate housing problem, it will make a sizeable dent in it. Moreover, the existence of so many good apartments will make the Cambridge landlord a little less cocky. Specific sites have not yet been chosen; in an official brochure, however, the Administration states that it "has in mind fairly high buildings with adequate play and parking spaces, near parks and good schools...