Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is what the candidate's press staff wants. The press is surrounded by the people who have nice things to say about the campaign. Those with complaints -- black leaders in the Milwaukee ghetto, in the case of Wisconsin--have a harder time reaching the reporters. When a crisis such as the Hersh resignation breaks, the campaign staff can fall back on the time-honored tradition of the "backgrounder"--a session in which a campaign aide gives newsmen a story which cannot be attributed except to "a high spokesman" or "sources close to..." "I don't want to make...
Glad to Unload. The Russians, on the other hand, have been bending over backward to be nice to Iran. Capitalizing on the Shah's determination to industrialize, they offer him heavy machinery and even fully installed industrial plants, complete with Soviet technicians, in exchange for iron ore and petroleum that the Iranians are only too glad to unload. Five other East European countries have followed Russia's lead, and together they have agreed to build him 19 major factories, 500 miles of railroad and a pipeline that will carry natural gas from the gulf to the Caspian...
...that he will send his 15-year-old daughter, Alice Ormsby-Gore, to Manhattan's Dalton School for the coming spring term. Alice will stay at the East Side apartment of a family friend, John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-nice enough digs, but quite a switch for Alice, who will have to leave behind her 175-cc. B.S.A. motorcycle and all her swinging siblings: Julian, 27, a London film maker and male fashion model; Jane, 25, wife of a Carnaby Street boutique owner; Victoria, 21, granny-style dresser and folk...
Liller will not another John Finley. "Above all Adams House must be a nice place to live," he says when asked if he would strive to have more Rhodes scholars or excellent athletes than the other Houses. "I feel that the Houses tend to become too institutionalized resulting in the large requests for off-campus living." He sees few reasons why someone living in a House cannot have the freedom of one who lives off-campus...
...result of the war, he finds a general change of opinion about Israel and the Israelis among the people of Nablus. "We knew nothing about Israel before and know everything now," he says. He himself has been to Tel Aviv, Yaffo, Natanya and Haifa and finds the cities "nice." He calls Israel a really European country...