Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candor and the desire to let off steam-understandable in an energetic man with little else to do-are not the only explanation for Agnew's behavior. His demand that the Moratorium leaders repudiate Hanoi's endorsement of the movement, for instance, came immediately after a Nixon-Agnew meeting. While other Republican officials have spoken calmly and even sympathetically of the M-day dissenters, Agnew has been there to remind the Administration's harder-nosed constituents that Washington is not going soft. The precedent is almost too obvious. During the '50s, it was Vice President Nixon...
...steam has run out but it could build up again easily. My guess is that if we have more serious blowups on the campuses this fall, nothing in the wide world will stop further legislation...
...Steam Screen. The great Alaska oil rush has been building momentum ever since January 1968, when an Atlantic Richfield Co. drilling crew struck pay dirt 8,700 feet below the tundra at Prudhoe Bay, on the Arctic Coast. Since then, 22 drilling rigs have been brought in, and their crews have sought to duplicate that feat, often working in minus 65° weather and braving 100-m.p.h. winds. The land that they explored was open range until last week's sale of leases, and maintaining secrecy was as important as keeping warm. Companies hired helicopters to spy on competitors...
Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin recently told Congress that high interest rates are "not a goal" of the Board's policy. He implied that he would be happy to see the economy lose enough steam to let rates fall. Still, there is scant chance that the Fed will ease its squeeze on money any time soon, if only because price increases are proving so difficult to arrest...
...allow that the presidency is "the kind of challenge that I'd feel to be the ultimate experience in political life." Would he shrink from it? "Certainly not." But he is also philosophical about his chances for the nomination: "I don't have quite the head of steam about running for President that I had six months ago. If I didn't get the nomination, it wouldn't leave me with my life shattered...