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...Chancellery official who wanted special help in disposing of some people he found particularly irksome: "This is the most important shop in the entire Reich, and here this uncle asks me whether he could have a few trains. And he is very courteous and cordial, because he wants to stoke the stove with a few idiots...
...despite Nixon the campaign could wait. During the session, they would attempt to enact such major Democratic planks as medical care for the aged, a $1.25 minimum wage, aid for education, and foreign aid, and if President Eisenhower vetoed or the Republicans closed ranks in opposition, that would stoke up the campaign too. Said Jack Kennedy: "The American people will be quick to spot obstructionist tactics aimed at keeping us from enacting much of this legislation...
This handy division of labor permitted the Russians to play the two faced Janus. Their prominent role at the Festival allowed them to take credit for the existing fragments of "peace and friendship", while behind the closed door others could stoke the furnaces of power politics...
...office and a football pennant for his sceptre, the college president can be a figure of fun-although few who have held the position have suggested that it is fun to be a college president. A veteran occupier of learning's most uneasy chair, Harold Stoke, now president of Queens College, tells in The American College President (Harper; $3.50) what it is like to sit there. Stoke's credentials are various: he headed the University of New Hampshire from 1944 to 1947, then took on the presidency of Louisiana State University and, until his resignation (TIME...
...preoccupation with 'housekeeping,' however irritating and deplorable it may be to a new president of scholarly interests, weans the mind and creates a mood of resignation. Soon he finds his colleagues making references to books he has not read." The average term for a college president, says Stoke, is four years...