Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, Nixon encouraged his appointees to hold news conferences. The danger of attempting to say nothing while talking, however, immediately became apparent. When Chicago Banker David Kennedy, who will head the Treasury, was asked about the Government's fixed price for gold ($35 an ounce), he declared: "I want to keep every option open." Kennedy really meant to avoid any policy statement at all. But his remark immediately set off a flurry of speculation that the gold price might be raised (see BUSINESS...
Symbolic Gesture. Determined not to get himself locked into positions that he might later regret, Nixon in public confined himself largely to cautious or symbolic gestures. His conference with Republican leaders was little more than that. He had failed to say much about the United Nations during the campaign, so last week he took incoming Secretary of State William Rogers and Henry Kissinger, who will be the White House assistant for national security affairs, on a visit to the United Nations for a conference with Secretary-General U Thant. Early in the new Administration, Nixon intends to make a good...
...mission. Without exception, they are chronicles of frustration: the ICC has simply not been able to curb violations, or, for that matter, prevent a war. Its composition-an ideological troika-has rendered impossible the unanimous agreement required for any assessment as laid down in its charter. If the Canadians say yes, the Poles say no, and vice versa. Moreover, the protagonists in the Viet Nam conflict have shown no interest in peace and neutrality. Cooperation with the ICC-in Hanoi as well as in Saigon-has been minimal, and with no force of arms to give it authority, the commission...
...proof, music lovers have only to look around them and listen this Christmas-in churches and concert halls, on campuses and in record stores, in homes and on the streets. Then they, too, can say with Frederick the Great: "Old Bach is here...
Sparing of speech, White is noted for his availability to students. "He doesn't say much," said David C. McClellan, professor of Psychology, and a close friend for over 12 years, "but he's always willing to listen...