Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board's initial meeting were compiled by Clell Bryant and Claire Barnett. What does not appear in the excerpts is one little exchange that goes a long way to demolish Carlyle's famous description of economics as "the dismal science." Asked by Editor Loeb to clarify a point during the discussions, Dr. Walter Heller, a former presidential adviser, smilingly replied: "I purposely left that a little vague. I was following the Alex Cairncross dictum. His first rule when making a forecast is: Give either a number or a date, but never both. His second rule is: Never underestimate...
...acting as "Nixon's Nixon." Just before the 1954 congressional elections, Richard Nixon said: "Ninety-five percent of the Communists, fellow travelers, sex perverts, dope addicts, drunks and other security risks removed under the Eisenhower security program" were hired under Harry Truman. Now Agnew is out walking the point, flailing at "ideological eunuchs," "merchants of hate," "parasites of passion" and campus protesters who "take their tactics from Castro and their money from Daddy...
...merely camp?howling violations of political politesse. "If you've seen one slum," he declared during the campaign, "you've seen them all." The odd thing is that the line makes a certain cockeyed sense: there is a miserable monotony about urban slums. If Agnew had made the point with any sensitivity, the effect would have been the opposite of the one he achieved...
Cahill was acceptable to both liberal and conservative Republicans, and used his support of Nixon as a party rallying point. Meyner simply failed to unite Democrats or ignite independents. He probably had the best explanation for the proportions of his defeat. "I would suspect," he said on Election Night, "that there is a time when one who seeks public office seeks it one too many times. This apparently was the time...
...would be happy if we at least came to the point where it would not be more difficult to travel from one part of Germany to the other than to travel from Western Germany to foreign countries, even foreign Communist countries. In spite of the political differences, I would like very much, not only in the humanitarian field but also in the cultural field, to develop contacts that would correspond with the fact that we have the same cultural heritage...