Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question. Said the Senator: "I thought you were the wrong man for the wrong position." Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh told Sorensen that some people were out to get him "because they don't want a clean broom at the CIA." Senator George McGovern emerged from the audience to remark that the episode showed that the "ghost of Joe McCarthy still stalks the land." Committee Chairman Dan Inouye, who opposed the nomination, said that he hoped Sorensen would leave with no "bitterness...
...pathetic that there are still generals who are unable or unwilling to recognize and accept the function of the lawyer in the Army, as evidenced by General Ulmer's remark, "The goddam lawyers are ruining the Army...
...Everybody has talked about conservation but, as Mark Twain said about the weather, nobody has done very much about it." This wry remark was made last week by James Schlesinger in an interview with TIME, just before he was put in charge of the Carter Administration's energy policies. Schlesinger, the intellectual James-of-all-trades for the Nixon and Ford administrations, repeated the line at Carter's press conference and, untypically, botched it slightly.* But he still made his point about the energy crisis: "We are going to try to do something about...
...Carter Administration. Early in the week, at a Kremlin dinner for 150 U.S. business and Government leaders attending a trade meeting in Moscow, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev talked over their heads toward Plains in urging a speedup in the arms limitation negotiations. At least partly, Brezhnev's remark seemed to reflect Soviet sensitivity over speculation in the West that the Kremlin would aggressively move to test the toughness of the new Administration (TIME...
...Crimson regrets having misquoted Laura Shapiro in the issue referred to in her letter. The remark attributed to here was the result of a reporting error, and we sincerely apologize to Ms. Shapiro and to our readers. --The Editors