Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only real excitement of the season was long past. That had come five weeks earlier, in a crowded, noisy IAB, when 1600 people watched McClung and Sedlacek destroy a legend, and pull off the biggest upset in Harvard's 67-year basketball history...
...that the New York Governor's only problem. Having himself changed his political classification from 4F to 1A, Rockefeller felt no sudden, irresistible new pull toward the Republican nomination. Not yet, at least. Perhaps for this reason, he paraded his availability a bit more invitingly than before by acknowledging that he just might run against Richard Nixon in the Oregon primary. And the Governor summoned some two dozen Republican leaders from all over the country for a weekend meeting at his New York City apartment...
...subject pointed toward military means rather than concessions to the Communists. Under Lyndon Johnson, he said, "we have wasted our military power by using it gradually instead of effectively." Further: "We can't withdraw. We've got to mobilize our effort. We can pull out, but that would lose the peace." For good measure, nonetheless, he accused Johnson of putting too much emphasis on the military aspects of Viet...
...study of South Asia's problems and prospects. The job took him ten years, including three spent traveling in the area, and his findings fill three volumes and 2,500 pages. Impatient with the Western tendency to defer to the heightened sensitivities of South Asian leaders and thereby pull their critical punches, Myrdal tells it like he sees it. Many of his conclusions will not only depress Westerners concerned about the area's future, but will certainly upset many Asians...
...drop its insistence on the price fixed for gold in 1934. That heresy prompted rumors in Paris that the U.S. would embargo further sales of its gold. Two weeks ago, in a Senate speech, New York Republican Jacob Javits added to the doubts by urging that the U.S. pull out of the London gold pool, stop selling gold to foreigners on demand, support the dollar by buying and selling foreign currencies as other countries do. (The Treasury promptly denied any such intention.) Then there were reports that South Africa, the leading gold producer, might switch from Britain to France...