Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kapitsa behaved with the caution of a man who knew that he was being watched. He refused to clear up any of the mysteries of his past years, brushing off as "romantic" a reporter's question about his reaction to Stalin's stay order. He spoke guardedly about the Soviet space program, argued that the Soviets were still "a little ahead" of the U.S. At only one point did he unbend, offering his own formula for peace. It was, he said, "an international exchange of scientists from military institutions." "Then," added Kapitsa puckishly, "there would be no more...
Speaking to a mock convention of the state's Young Democrats at Memorial Hall, senatorial and gubernatorial candidates were all gently hung up on the Kennedy image. Endicott Peabody, running for Leverett Saltonstall's Senate seat, spoke with the late President's mannerisms--the left hand in the jacket pocket, the cupped right hand jabbing forward in the air. Edward McCormack, running for Governor, invoked JFK's name with liturgical repetition, but his speaking style was more like that of the younger Kennedys. He still had the monotonously rhythmic Massachusetts voice, nervous, clipped phrasing. Like everyone on the podium...
Born in Laredo, Mann spoke border Spanish-"Tex-Mex"-almost as soon as he spoke English and acquired a lifelong fondness for the neighboring Mexicans and the Latin temperament. All but two years of his State Department service were spent in Latin America or on Latin American affairs. He was ambassador to Mexico when Lyndon Johnson succeeded to the presidency, soon became Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs and the Administration's "one voice on all matters affecting this hemisphere." Last year he was promoted to Under Secretary and the Department's No. 3 man, after Dean Rusk...
Galbraith's remark evoked a time when the U.S. still spoke of "dark" corners in the world and even of entire "dark" continents. In fact, he seemed to suggest a new principle for evaluating countries or regions-a sort of sliding obscurity scale-without making it clear how it would be applied. The standards of obscurity are historically fickle. Czechoslovakia and Poland seemed fairly obscure to many Americans in the 1930s, but events there led to World War II. Greece was an off-Broadway tragedy after World War II until Harry Truman decided to commit U.S. power there...
Such a plan incorporates a few of the traditional selection system's rules into this year's new system. Freshmen could state a preference this year only if they submitted a letter giving "substantial reason" along with their applications, or spoke to a House Master personally. If Dean Monro decided a freshman's reasons were insubstantial, a House Master was never notified of the request...