Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem that might have even more bearing on international relationships: to anyone willing to accept obvious facts, the U.S.S.R. has far outstripped the U.S. in the reach for space. President Eisenhower has seemed remarkably unconcerned about the U.S. lag, but the fact remains that, as a man who has spent his entire career in meeting heavy responsibilities, it is his plain and pressing responsibility to see to it that the U.S. gets humping in its space programs...
...said to me . . ." In Illinois for the dedication of the University of Chicago's new $4,100,000 law center, Nixon urged, as he had before, that the rule of law be brought more decisively into international affairs; bypassing the opportunity to talk politics with Illinois Republicans, Nixon spent nearly all his spare time in his hotel room, working on a carefully nonpartisan speech, which he delivered at midweek at the CENTO conference in Washington (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...India's V. K. Krishna Menon declared that while his government would be only too happy to negotiate its border dispute with Red China, it would do so only after Communist troops had been withdrawn from Indian territory. In New Delhi, Prime Minister Nehru spent the week consulting other nations that are also at odds with Peking. The ambassadors from Yugoslavia, a country with an old grudge against Red China, and from the United Arab Republic, whose grudge is new, both called on Nehru. Finally, Burma's Prime Minister Ne Win flew in. "General...
...than I had planned." Of course, he did not shrug off the defeat. "I must have thought 200 times--what if I had done this, what if I had done that. But I didn't go out and get drunk or anything," he says. Most of the other players spent an unusually quiet evening, with friends or dates or alone...
After the war years, during which Latham had spent most of his time working for the Bureau of the Budget, he had to make what he has called the "key decision" of his life, of whether to remain in government service or to return to teaching. He decided on an academic career and returned to the University of Minnesota, but retained his interest in politics...