Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, President Sukarno had resisted the new regime's efforts to replace his unwieldy, 100-man Cabinet in favor of a smaller body with lots of new faces. Day after day, the discussions dragged on as the Bung struggled to retain some vestige of his former power. If General Suharto wanted the premier ship of the new Cabinet, argued Su karno, he would have to resign as the army commander, and on no account was the foreign ministry to remain in the hands of Adam Malik, the ardent advocate of an end to Sukarno's beloved confrontation with...
Harvard, even during the summer session, can afford to retain its identity as a school which attempts to foster a sense of social responsibility along with high academic standards. One does not exclude the other...
...Studies, and a School of Natural Sciences composed mostly of physicists. All are devoted to "pure" rather than practical research-so pure that the physicists do not even have laboratories. One of the few bitter faculty clashes in the Institute's history was a fight over whether to retain the engineers brought in by Hungarian Mathematician John von Neumann to build a huge digital computer he had designed. The professors not only voted out the "hardware" men-but the computer as well. Less painfully, Oppenheimer in 1950 quietly phased out a school of economists who turned...
...reservations, will be opposed by a Republican who takes either a similar or a harder line. In most cases, therefore, only those who favor escalation of the war will have an opportunity to make their views felt. A few Senate seats may change hands, but Democrats are likely to retain the 68 seats they have held for the past two years...
...President's personal unpopularity could lead to his defeat. To Javits, whether Johnson is beatable or not is irrelevant. As he sees it, the G.O.P. is obliged to put up a strong fight if it is to lay a base for 1972 and, more important, if it is to retain its vigor as a major party...