Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...egocentric MacArthur and the self-effacing staff officer nevertheless grew to respect, if not like, each other. His celebrated commander had one habit that, Eisenhower confessed, "never ceased to startle me. In reminiscing or in telling stories of the current scene, he talked of himself in the third person. 'So MacArthur went over to the Senator . . .' " Ike later-was to direct historians recording his official speeches to avoid "the perpendicular pronoun"?the simple...
...Clinton Rossiter, Cornell University, author of The American Presidency: "I think Eisenhower will not be remembered as a great President. He will be remembered as a great person. I don't think Eisenhower intended to be a great President, because he didn't believe in the exercise of presidential power. The country needed him in a deep-down peace-serenity-virtue kind of way, but it was a four-year, not an eight-year need. Still, for the first time since Jack Kennedy, I shed tears...
Responsive Enough. The transplanted heart has no connections with the brain, Cooley pointed out, and therefore cannot respond to nervous stimuli that, for example, make the normal heart beat faster when a person is excited. Yet although the transplanted heart is less sensitive, it is able to keep the recipient alive and is responsive enough to permit him a reasonable degree of activity. An artificial heart, Cooley suggested, need do no more. Artificial heart research, which will surely benefit from the knowledge gained by transplants, may in turn help to explain why the natural heart, with no connection...
...petition had argued that the court was, in effect, granting legal immunity to anyone who was bugged in the course of espionage or counterespionage investigations. Indeed, he added, the decision might even "point the way for the well-advised person to obtain such immunity by simply making a telephone call" to, for instance, the Russian embassy...
...wavy hair and a straight nose. Yet, when Caron was asked to look over some mug shots, one of two photos he picked out was that of Miller, who was known to federal authorities because of his friendship with a Mafia mobster. Later, Caron definitely identified Miller as the person who had picked up his heroin in Connecticut. At Miller's trial, Caron also recalled that the license plate on the pickup car was "AM 1826"-Miller's number...