Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awed-by McNamara. Often the President phones him before 7 a.m. for a rundown on Viet Nam. Less decisive than McNamara, Rusk is nevertheless valuable to Johnson not only as a loyal conduit for his policies but also as a skillful operator on Capitol Hill and a man of quiet reason. Johnson repays Rusk's loyalty. When critics asked why he did not reach into the lower echelons of the State Department for advice as Jack Kennedy often did, Johnson replied, "Hell, I go to Dean Rusk. He's my Secretary of State." Bundy, a Bostonian whose occasionally...
Things being relatively quiet in the South, Martin Luther King marched in the North...
Last week he was in the midst of an energetic tour of three Eastern European countries-Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Quiet, curious-minded, and with a quick grasp of affairs, Stewart, 58, has obviously matured in office and is now regarded as a darkhorse possibility for future Prime Minister. In Defense, Denis Healey has aimed his expertise at the tactical and technological aspects of the military. Roy Jenkins, after 16 years as a backbencher, was given the Aviation Ministry, where his most controversial task has been to wipe out the costly TSR 2 jet bomber. At first, Jenkins...
...Throw Them Out." CBS Chairman William S. Paley had not even gaveled his overflow audience to order in Manhattan before a woman stockholder in red-feathered hat and raffish earrings got up to make a loud complaint: she had, she said, been issued a subpoena to keep quiet at the meeting. (Subpoenas are not issued for such purposes, and CBS said it had sought no order against her.) When he could finally get a word in, Paley proceeded to the meeting's business, which included the abrupt firing two months ago of CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey...
...initiative at the local level and to turn recruitment over to individual community projects throughout Mississippi. Many of last year's volunteers will certainly be invited back, and anyone is free to sign up now for consideration by the local leaders. But the invitation procedure will be much more quiet and less glamorous than last year's drive...