Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale's helm, Brewster has guided the University one step further down this perilous course. For his boys, there will now be no more waiting in drab New Haven station for trainloads of weekend sex. They will no longer have to pace back and forth on the platform of Track 8, chewing their fingers and sweating in their pants. Instead, they will go blissfully about their daily business, because out of the blue sky of creation a Yale baby has been born...
...symphony orchestra, a museum of fine arts, a municipal opera company or a repertory theater group, you have a problem: fund raising. An increasingly popular three-step solution, is to: 1) gang up with all the other local cultural organizations under one catchy acronym, 2) persuade people and companies to donate tax-deductible goods and services - the more wildly improbable the better, and 3) auction them off at a fancy benefit party, making sure that there is plenty to drink to keep the bidding spirited...
...boss sends him to Manhattan to extradite a prisoner named Ringerman (Don Stroud), who is in Bellevue recovering from an acid trip. He cons the doctors into releasing him, but Ringerman's girl Linny (Tisha Sterling) and a pal named Pushie sap Coogan as he is about to step on the plane for Arizona, stealing his gun and his prisoner. Coogan then sets out to run Ringerman to ground in an attempt to salvage his personal and professional honor...
...mobilization is intended as the first step in a campaign directed at the new Administration and Congress, urging immediate withdrawal of all troops from Vietnam...
...Honolulu in July for private talks, some officials insist, he was trying to persuade Viet Nam's President to accept a bombing halt. After the meeting, Johnson spoke in harsh terms of the fighting ahead, and the assumption was that he and Thieu had agreed on a new step-up in military activity. That assumption may well have been incorrect. Not long after the Honolulu meeting, a group of South Vietnamese senators passed through Paris en route home after a visit to Washington and told newsmen and diplomats there that a bombing pause was in the offing...