Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy and secrecy. He restricted the use of Government cars for secretaries who worked late, and tried-unsuccessfully-to limit overtime pay for office workers. He also attempted to devise a telephone monitoring system so that the names of all callers would be noted. Once, following up a chance remark of the President's, he ordered a wall built between the Executive Office Building and the White House to block the vision of nosy reporters. That project was canceled, but Watson did succeed in barring reporters from the low-cost Executive Office Building cafeteria and in restricting their access...
From the Wahsite Brachys we hear a chuckle and the remark: "Dolichos are really funny." John W. Fleming Director of Admissions Shaw University
President Nathan M. Pusey's remark that he "regrets and feels sad about black student's dissatisfaction with Harvard," is touching indeed. University officials have nonetheless decided not to act on any of Afro's four requests: 1) Black professors; 2) more courses relevant to Blacks; 3)more lower level Black Faculty members, and; 4) the admission of Black students proportionate to our percentage of the population as a whole...
...Komocsin warned that events in Czechoslovakia have "an anarchistic character," but the biggest storm broke last week when East German Party Ideologist Kurt Hager accused Dubček and his men of "filling the West with the hope that Czechoslovakia will be pulled into the maelstrom of evolution." The remark reflected East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's fear that Dubček's government may soon cozy up to West Germany for the sake of more trade and the special hard-money credits it badly needs. The Czechoslovaks were furious. Dubček's government formally...
LYNDON JOHNSON'S curious remark that, "the New Hampshire primary is one that anyone can enter and everyone can win," may yet prove one of the most astute comments on that event. Like the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the magical 42 per cent of the vote Senator McCarthy commandeered turned the 1968 campaign into "an entirely new ball game" in a number of ways. The primary, regarded as a sharp rebuke to the President himself and/or his Vietnam policy, may actually be an ironic stroke of fortune in an otherwise steadily growing list of political nightmares for the man from...