Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central Intelligence Agency, which tries not too successfully to stay out of the news, makes it big when it has something that it wants to tell. So it was last week when Richard Helms was named to replace Admiral William Raborn, 61, as director of the CIA. And, as usual, there were countless cloak-and-dagger theories to explain the switch. President Johnson compounded the conspiracy theories by burying the news in a clutch of routine personnel announcements...
Actually, Raborn had an understanding with Johnson, when he took the job 14 months ago, that he would stay only a year or two; thus his departure was not unexpected. A retired line officer with a flair for administration, he brought to the sprawling spookery in Langley, Va., modern management techniques for analyzing, projecting and distributing the inchoate mass of information that pours in on the agency from every corner of the world...
...Combat, Critic Jean Hamon accused Boulez of trying to control France's musical development with "a dictatorship Boulezienne conceived on the immutable principle that 'no one has any talent except us and our friends.'" Concluded Hamon: "Goodbye, then, Herr Boulez. Return to your plush exile. Stay there, and while you are at it, why don't you change your nationality?" Boulez's reaction: "Hamon is an imbecile, always was. It is this chauvinism which makes it impossible for me to ever live in France, and particularly in Paris, again...
...Bosch, he said that he would stay out of the government but would not slip back into exile as had been rumored. If he joined the government or left the country, he feared that he would lose control of the young, trigger-happy leftists in his party and "leave the streets to someone else." Right now, he said, it was all he could do to keep them from declaring another war against the Bosch-hating military...
...their grip on the City's housing market constitute one of the most consistent tensions between Harvard and the rest of Cambridge. "The biggest criticism that I've heard of the town-grown scene is that the University people have boosted rents so high that local people can't stay anymore," says one local politician...