Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Limelight. Sordid in its details, tragic in its personal consequences, and of unmeasured significance in its political effects, the story was splashed atop front pages all over the country. Ironically, the man around whom the storm swirled had been the most self-effacing, quiet and publicity-shy member of Johnson's White House team. Quartered in Sherman Adams' old office in the southwest wing of the White House, he was the mysterious, slightly-out-of-focus fellow who seldom had his picture taken or got in the papers but who knew everything that was going...
Bill Moyers (he was christened Billy but dislikes the diminutive) is a slim, pallidly handsome Baptist lay preacher who has directed the intellectual side of L.B.J.'s shop with quiet efficiency since Johnson moved into the White House. He supervises such speechwriters as Richard Goodwin, Douglass Cater and Horace Busby, tosses in the scriptural citations of which Lyndon is so fond. Better than any other staffer, he knows Johnson's mercurial moods, manages to assuage the boss with well-reasoned argument, never shouts or panics. Yet such self-control comes at a price: Moyers suffers from a chronic...
Time to Depart. For weeks, the Viet Cong had been relatively quiet, apparently failing to exploit the chaotic political situation in South Viet Nam. Americans in Saigon thought the Reds were hurting militarily. Perhaps, a little. At the same time, they probably did not want to take a chance of rallying support behind General Nguyen Khanh's regime by pressing major at tacks. At any rate, last week the Viet Cong cut loose again. In a spate of ambushes and fire fights-some within 15 miles of Saigon-they inflicted 403 casualties on government forces while suffering 266 themselves...
...Must Explain." Looking paler than usual as she stood before Quebec's solemn legislators, the Queen voiced a quiet appeal for unity: "Between compatriots, we must explain and present our points of view, without passion, respecting the opinions of others. This country is the meeting place of two great civilizations, each contributing its own genius and quality. These qualities are not contradictory, but complement one another...
...nice-looking group. The men wore quiet ties and dark, well-fitting suits; the women, mostly hatless and coifed for the occasion, were in simple knits or tweeds, just the thing for the suburbs-even an appearance in court. These were the parents whose arrest for violation of a Connecticut statute against serving liquor to minors has sent a shock wave of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I across the country (TIME...