Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reorganizing the armed forces reserves. He is fighting McNamara's bill for a $447 million military pay raise. Rivers thinks the hike ought to be nearly twice as much, and he scoffed at the Administration's claim that the Pentagon figure would be enough to "attract and retain adequate numbers and quality of personnel in the armed forces." Rivers said the statement was "ridiculous on its face"-and Bob McNamara is not accustomed to such talk...
...more concrete terms, the crisis facing Harvard during the Furry case revolved around the area of political independence and three questions raised by the spectre of Communism. Harvard was forced to decide whether it would retain a teacher if he, first, was a Communist; second, had been a Communist; and, third, invoked the fifth amendment before congressional committees in order to keep his political affiliations private...
Representing the Boston Medical Library. Sprague said he felt "like the father of the bride who has arrived with her at the altar after a rather adventurous trip down the aisle lasting over seven years." Within the Countway, the Boston Medical Library will retain its corporate entity, the rights to its collection, and its own associate Librarian it will also remain the library of the Massachusetts Medical Society...
...unsuccessfully three times to reach Hamilton by phone, Liz dispatched a firm note requesting the letter's return. "Mrs. Johnson is absolutely certain," she wrote, "that she has never given away any letter sent to her by Mrs. Kennedy-in fact, it has always been her policy to retain all letters sent to her personally. Accordingly, we can only conclude that the letter was taken without authority or that it was inadvertently lost. In either event, we are exceedingly anxious that this be returned to Mrs. Johnson, the rightful owner, and trust that you will see to it that...
...Brandeis Political Scientist John P. Roche calls "career alienationists." A retreat into academe does not guarantee intellectual purity. Universities are full of "pure" academics, uncorrupted by politics (except academic politics, of course), who are thinking in cliches. On the other hand, a great many intellectuals in government or business retain their ability to think for themselves. In the end, what counts is not having an independent position but being capable of independent thought...