Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway sign ballyhooing El Cid. Justice Samuel Hofstadter chucked out her requested injunction. Said he: "Such vanity doubtless is due to the adulation which the public showers on the denizens of the entertainment world in a profusion wholly disproportionate to the intrinsic contribution which they make to the scheme of things...
Predictably, some of the current tech service chiefs are unhappy about the threat to their fiefdoms. But the initial reaction of Congress was favorable to the scheme, which also has the wholehearted blessing of Commander in Chief John Kennedy. Under terms of the Defense Reorganization Act of 1958, the proposal will go into effect automatically if it is not disapproved by the Armed Services Committees of the House and the Senate within 30 days. Even if one or both of the committees do reject the plan, it will still become effective if the House and Senate do not second...
...hogwash has been written about the college press--its place in the educational scheme of things, how much freedom its editors should enjoy, the reasons why it should be free...
Lord Home did have warm words for some of the U.N.'s positive gains-the defeat of the Soviet "troika" scheme by the "common sense of the Assembly," and the "quiet, unostentatious but valuable work" in medicine, farming, education and technical assistance. Home even conceded that, while Britain opposed the U.N.'s violent methods in the Congo, U.N. action had "kept the cold war out of that country...
Despite these outbursts against the United States, Russell seldom receved praise from the Kremlin. Moscow radio once called him "this philosophical wolf, whose dinner jacket conceals all the brutal instincts of a beast." This blast greeted his advocacy of the Baruch Proposal, the American scheme for internationalizing all nuclear armaments. In Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (1959) he remarks, "I thought, at the time, that it would be worth while to bring pressure to bear upon Russia and even, if necessary, to go so far as to threaten war on the sole issue of the internationalizing of atomic weapons...