Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Note--In the third paragraph of the reply to Mr. Kllson's letter see page 40 the last phrase of the third sentence should read "complete change of the social order" rather than "violent change...
President Kennedy said that world affairs, in a not very resounding phrase, were entering into "a rather climactic period." Secretary of State Dean Rusk, appearing before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan, put it another way. "I suspect that we are," he said, "on the front edge of significant and perhaps unpredictable events, a period in which some of the customary patterns of thought will have to be reviewed and perhaps revised...
Magic Slogan. By their votes and by their abstentions (the percentage of stay-at-homes was the largest since 1881), the voters dealt a crushing blow to the "parties of yesteryear," in De Gaulle's scornful phrase; parties that represent no "doctrine" but only a "clientele." The election went far toward resolving the conflict between France's old. divisively individualist parliamentary tradition and the strong presidential system that De Gaulle believes is essential if France is to achieve stability and self-respect...
...Normandy, former Radical Premier Pierre Mendés-France, 55, dour Cassandra of the intellectual left, was hopelessly outdistanced by urbane Jean de Broglie. 41, De Gaulle's civil service chief. From Toulouse to Versailles, many other old-line politicians were defeated by newcomers who, in the French phrase, were "parachuted" into critical constituencies...
Government grants to the University appear as a patch-work of departments because of Harvard's system of budgeting. Under a long-standing rule, expressed by the hallowed phrase "each tub must stand on its own bottom," a separate accounting is kept by each department, and each must balance its budget annually. Departments must absorb deficits to the limit of their own accumulated balances of previous years. When these are used up, deficits may be covered by unrestricted funds from the University's separate endowment...