Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the Curtain. President Johnson, full of praise, spoke at the conference, called Laurance Rockefeller a "selfless patriot," joked about the White House upheaval caused by the crusade for beauty. "This afternoon, after a particularly hectic day yesterday and after a late lunch, I went in about 4:15 to get my afternoon nap," said Johnson, "and I dozed off to sleep immediately after I put my head on the pillow. And some time or other I awakened and I could hear a little soft music in the background and a lot of conversation, and I said...
Dean Berry, who is retiring at the end of this academic year, spoke of the importance of the Library to Boston, New England, and all of American medicine. With its more than 500,000 volumes, the Countway will be a major research center for all medical scientists. In addition, its futuristic equipment makes it a model for all up-to-date libraries...
Finally, MacLeish, a former Librarian of Congress, spoke gracefully of the problems of a scientific library in the face of growing difficulties of communication among scientists. He pointed out that the coherence of a library depends upon the coherence of the knowledge it problems and that the apparent fragmentation of scientific knowledge poses a serious intellectual problem...
Finally, an answer. Chairman Jordan had arrived in the chamber, sat with hands folded in his lap while Williams spoke, then delivered a lame reply: "It would be highly out of order for me to engage in a discussion of the working draft until the committee has met and acted...
...Among those who perished were my close friends, and nobody would succeed in convincing me that they were traitors. Sergei Eisenstein [the famous Soviet movie director] told me of his meetings with Stalin, who spoke of the necessity to extol Ivan the Terrible and added that Peter the Great didn't cut off enough heads." Summing up his thoughts about Stalin, Ehrenburg says: "If he just read the list of all his victims, he would not have been able to do anything else...