Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clague's speech hit the Administration hard. Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, Clague's superior, issued a swift, snappish rebuttal: "The economic facts do not bear out such an assumption." Clague was telephoned, bawled out, and told to pull back. He and Goldberg worked out an "amplification." "I wish to make it clear that I was not making a prediction," said Clague. "only analyzing historic economic movements...
...alleged slights at the hands of U.S. diplomats. Quinim has the potential of developing into a Laotian Krishna Menon. but last week he was acting his affable best, assuring newsmen that the new Laos was happy to accept aid "without conditions" from East and West. Washington was swift to make its contribution: the payment of $3,000,000 a month to the Laos government-suspended last February to help force Phoumi into the coalition-was resumed...
...same determined speed-if not the same temperament. With more than half of the season to go. he already has 34 stolen bases to his credit, seems certain to top the record for active players of 56 steals, set in 1959 by Chicago's Luis Aparicio. So swift and so canny is Wills that he has been caught trying to steal only five times this year, and the experts give him a chance to top even Cobb's record. Says Alston: "He's the greatest base stealer I've seen in the majors.'' Green...
McGinnis concedes, however, that his merger proposals are still "at a very informal stage," and on Wall Street last week some of his old colleagues did not seem to share his confidence in the Boston & Maine's future. "I think a swift breeze could take them right off the diving board," said one metaphor mixer. "McGinnis is probably abandoning a sinking ship...
Died. Harold Higgins Swift, 77, former board chairman of Swift & Co., world's largest meat-packing house, the last of Founder Gustavus Swift's seven sons, a bachelor who was the University of Chicago's most generous alumnus; of a heart attack; in Chicago...