Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Continuing its trip through California, Discovery tours "San Francisco: Harbor of Harbors, Bay of Bays," seeing the waterfront, the Golden Gate Bridge, Nob and Telegraph hills, the Barbary Coast and reminiscing a bit about its fires, earth quakes and gold rush...
...Harvard freshmen elected to the committee are: Lawrence Dicara, Franklin D. Raines, and Timothy N. Rush...
...Rush. Thus McNamara's problem was an intensely personal one. Doubtless a man of his drive, dedication, and desire to win-whether at chess, squash or disputes over great public issues-feels an emotional anchor to his job and to seeing the war through. But McNamara is also supremely rational; his reason could not ignore the logic in favor of a change in jobs. Thus, while his heart said stay, his mind said...
...neither side was there a disposition to rush matters. It was last April 18 that George Woods, the World Bank president, whose term expires Dec. 31, sounded McNamara out about taking over the job. McNamara went to Johnson with the idea, said he was interested but added that he would stay at the Pentagon as long as Johnson wanted him there. "You can have anything you want," Johnson responded...
...acquisitive society, things are the measure of all men. The moral of Edward Albee's latest play, Everything in the Garden, is that hell is possessions. In the rush to acquire status-bearing objects, his characters trample on love, decency and honor and are left in destitution of spirit. Garden is not so much a black as a tattletale-grey comedy. Based on a British play by the late Giles Cooper, Garden sometimes lapses into melodrama and implausibility, but it is Albee's most satisfying dramatic effort since Virginia Woolf...