Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that matter, even some of the venerable pachyderms Nixon herded to Washington to defend his foreign policy quickly wearied of the hard sell. John J. McCloy, who was once considered unofficial president of the Eastern Establishment, grew so restless during a long lecture by Nixon that he started flipping his pencil into the air. Finally, by one participant's account, he blurted out to Dean Acheson: "Why, this man is telling us things that we all knew when he was still in those dreadful California suits." When Nixon called for a break to have a group picture taken, Acheson...
...outskirts of Cairo; Sadat also opened up the older, ornate Abdine Palace down town, which had belonged to Farouk. He also holds occasional meetings in a suite of the new Cairo-Sheraton Hotel, a 23-story building that is now the tallest in Cairo. Nasser was a restless ball of energy who could work a 20-hour day. Sadat works at a less frenetic pace. He prefers to spend as much time as possible with his half Egyptian, half British second wife, Gehan, their three daughters and their son Gamal, 14, as well as with Sadat's two collies, Lassie...
...jobs, and a stint at housewifery before becoming a teacher in a suburban high school. "A Harvard degree is never good if you stay in one place too long," he cautions. "Rather than becoming dully competent to a task you should play the role of the well-mannered but restless whiz...
Laird, 48, is a driving, restless individual who becomes impatient when things do not go exactly as planned, and he is privately impatient with the pace of many of the Administration's programs. When he leaves the Pentagon, he would like to be remembered as the Secretary of Defense who took the nation out of the war via Vietnamization and who got the defense budget under control. Neither project is proceeding as well as he had hoped...
...vote no!" Gibson, now ironically allied with the white board members, found chances for compromise vanishing; the union threatened a campaign to recall him. At week's end the outlook was for a cooling-off period of at least a week before negotiations might resume. Newark's restless children, who have been watching TV and wandering the streets having "hooky parties" during the strike, started their spring vacation. When they get back to school, it seems unlikely that they will learn any more than they ever have...