Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsibility at this point is much misunderstood. Columnist James Reston, for example, took the department to task because it "has not developed for the President any guiding strategy of foreign policy or any order of priorities in that field." To such criticism, Rusk says: "While Mr. Truman's remark that 'the President makes foreign policy' is not the whole story, it serves very well if one wishes to deal with the matter in five words." Rusk thinks it sufficient for him to call vital matters to Lyndon Johnson's attention, to proffer alternatives...
Next day, when the 60 veniremen-all white-were asked whether they had any fixed opinion on the case, one blurted: "I have. Not guilty." Amid snickers from white spectators, the state objected that such a remark in open court prejudiced a fair trial; but again a continuance was denied. The state then asked permission to withdraw the case until it was prepared to prosecute...
...Your story on Father Divine's death [Sept. 17] was delightful. But you did not include his most profound remark: "The trouble with the world is that there are too many metaphysicians who don't know how to tangibilate...
...bolster its new, well-received arts and entertainment section. "Until recently," says a staffer, "they just wouldn't have done that. They'd have simply grabbed some gal on the staff, on the theory that girls probably know about music, and moved her in there." The remark was a bit of city room hyperbole; in fairness to the Star, the last music critic...
...Cattle rustlers, that's all," snorted Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry when the first reports of Communist guerrilla activity filtered down from the country's Andean highlands last June. The remark now haunts Belaúnde. Last week, in the severest crisis of his 26-month administration, Belaúnde chose to accept the resignation of his entire Cabinet rather than allow it to appear before Congress to answer criticism about the government's laggardly response to the guerrilla threat...