Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current favorites in the quest for the G.O.P. nomination-Michigan's Governor George Romney and former Vice President Richard Nixon-the meeting at Jackson Lake Lodge was at best a disappointment, at worst a storm signal. Romney's backers wanted the Governors to issue a pronouncement of support for their man, thereby puffing some wind into the sails of his be calmed campaign. No such gust was forthcoming, despite the earnest efforts of New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Rhode Island's John Chafee. Nixon, though undoubtedly relieved by the Governors' failure to rally behind...
...example, now has one large, university-wide campaign). Reynolds involves himself in a school's individual capital campaign to the extent that it must extend beyond its natural constituency (alumni of the school and interested friends). Reynolds has the President's authority to give a dean the go-ahead signal on soliciting an important individual or corporation, and he and Pusey frequently prevent overlapping requests. "We must protect our donors from multiple assaults," says Pusey...
...confrontation with President Kennedy. The man generally figured to have the inside track for the top job is Executive Vice President R. Heath Larry, 53, a former company labor negotiator who now serves as Blough's right-hand man. Ed Gott's new responsibilities might well signal the emergence of another candidate...
...Mumford, suggests that man has moved logically from the primeval invention of tools to conquest of nature and finally to detachment from organic habitat by means of ultra-machines. With support from a big-think bibliography of 370 sources, Mumford argues that making and using tools didn't signal man's rise from slime. Dreams, language, ritual-all first products of the mind-did. And because the mind is father to the hand, it can reverse the mechanized march to doom. How that might happen will have to wait until Mumford's sequel; this book ends...
That emergency action two weeks ago was aimed at forestalling a disruptive disappearance of the nation's remaining silver coinage before it could be fully replaced by coins of copper and nickel. Silver speculators, however, took the curbs as a signal that by year's end, when the Treasury expects to have sufficient "clad" coins available, it will stop holding down the domestic price of silver by selling it for $1.29 per oz. Next day, traders on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange bid up the price of silver to $1.67 per oz. Though the price of the metal...