Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy was dubious. Said he to the obscure University of Minnesota professor: "They tell me you're an economist, but you're the first that I've met from outside Cambridge, Mass." Kennedy, however, quickly got over his hesitation about accepting advice from someone unconnected with either Harvard or M.I.T. Walter Heller was so persuasive -- and so adept at translating economic jargon into everyday language -- that the whole nation came to listen, and profit. When he died last week of a heart attack at 71, he had been out of Government office for 23 years...
...Office has mounted a $1 million publicity campaign that stresses Switzerland's "stability and tranquillity." A $3 million advertising blitz touting the pleasures of Greece includes a series of TV commercials, first aired last year, in which such all- American personalities as Cliff Robertson, Lloyd Bridges and Sally Struthers tell their compatriots, "I'm going home . . . to Greece...
...think there is another person in America who wants to tell this story as much...
...have been working all this past week in Los Angeles on a new television pilot for a prime-time series. I left the taping at 4 o'clock this morning your time, chartered a plane and flew all morning to get here by 10. So I just want to tell you, if I fall asleep, don't worry, don't panic and don't disturb...
Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House select committee, eloquently summed up the lessons learned so far. "Our Government cannot function cloaked in secrecy," he said. "It cannot function unless officials tell the truth." Beyond that, Hamilton noted that "privatization of foreign policy is a prescription for confusion and failure." He found an absence of accountability throughout the sorry affair. "High officials cannot look the other way or distance themselves from key aspects of policy or the actions of those they supervise...