Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Getting nervous because no date had been set, a Capitol Hill Republican last week telephoned a White House aide to find out when the President was planning to hold his meeting with G.O.P. congressional leaders to discuss the Administration's legislative program for the new ses sion of Congress. The answer: "We don't plan to have a meeting, and we don't want one." Dwight Eisenhower saw no need to talk over his program for the congressional session that convenes this week. Reason: he plans no brand-new programs, no departures from the basics he stressed...
MURDER IN BLACK LETTER, by Poul Anderson (182 pp.; Macmillan; $3.50) presents an amateur sleuth who is a professor of Renaissance literature, a judo expert, and a nervous wreck. Black depression over the death years before of his sister overtakes him at odd moments, and, as one character says in admiration, "every couple of years Kintyre spends a few days in hell." But when a young graduate student is tortured and killed just before publishing a thesis on witches in 14th century Italy, Kintyre shakes his gloom and sniffs after the killers. Author Anderson creates a spooky San Francisco cityscape...