Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overnight the presidential future books trembled: Nixon clearly stood with McClellan for a sterner labor bill in defense of rank-and-file rights; Kennedy lost face; Humphrey, in absentia, looked silly. And on close second look Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, famous for his deft control of the Senate, looked like the man who had let it all happen. Wags whispered that his L.B.J. initials meant "Let's Block Jack...
President Eisenhower winced at the task before him. Responding to an overnight message asking him to telephone Secretary of State Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital, Ike climbed the stairs to his vacation headquarters above the golf pro shop at Augusta, sadly ordered the call put through. When Dulles came on the line, the President asked: "Foster, how are you?" Secretary Dulles replied: "I'm not getting better enough, and not soon enough, Mr. President." Then he added: "I believe we ought to move now." Slowly Ike answered, "I agree...
...game of musical chairs," he says. "The jet age is going to move everybody up a notch. There's a place for every plane at a price, but it's not all going to happen overnight. The phasing in and out all along the line will take two to five years...
...about 50 members, but no records, dues, laws or officers; its meetings have been held at Washington cocktail parties with a two-member quorum. Typical agenda item: how to tow Antarctic icebergs north and melt them to irrigate Southern California. But in science the impractical can turn practical overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which is now backed by the National Science Foundation: to drill a hole right down through the earth's crust to its hidden interior...
...Sleeve. Obviously Nikita Khrushchev had not overnight abandoned his belief that "Social Democrats are the worst enemies of the working class." nor were the Socialists of Western Europe eager to revive their prewar Popular Front with the Communists: too many of their comrades have died in Arctic prison camps. Nonetheless, Socialists continue to tug at the sleeve of the conservative governments of their countries with insistent demands for Western "flexibility" in negotiations with Russia...