Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...becomes very serious. It is time, he says, to think about the man who must stand ready to step into the President's shoes if tragedy should befall. He reminds the delegates that back in March he said on television that competence should be the sole quality in picking a vice-presidential candidate. And suddenly he is making a nominating speech...
Blake singled out highway planners for special criticism. "We can no longer afford to have our cities, in effect, shaped or mis-shaped by technicians whose sole interest is getting so many thousands of cars per hour from one place to another...
...this clear vision has been replaced by myopia. Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, indicated Wednesday that he was unable to distinguish between democratic regimes and rightist dictatorships in Latin America. This is doubly alarming, since Mann has been entrusted by the President with sole responsibility for U.S. policy in this area; his speech therefore indicates what Johnson's Latin American policy will probably...
...Solicitor Richard D. Gerould '24 to say whether it was legally bound by the 16,802 to 15,308 referendum vote to discontinue fluoridation. Gerould cited a state Supreme Court decision in a recent Newton case that such referenda are only advisory, and told the Board that it has "sole authority to determine whether there shall be fluoridation...
...sole reference to Cambridge occurs in a passage about the indifference of the wealthy to American housing problems, and concerns a recently built women's dormitory at M.I.T.: "One wealthy lady gave money for the construction of a girls' dormitory in Cambridge. It is a luxurious building, done in contemporary style... However, the lady benefactor did not at all aspire to do something good. She wanted to immortalize her name before death, and so it is immortalized, inscribed upon a memorial slate at the main entrance...