Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pompidou has been saying the same thing in private ever since De Gaulle suddenly replaced him six months ago with Maurice Couve de Murville. To friends, the onetime Rothschild partner confided that "I will either be the next President of France or leader of the opposition...
Wills' conservative heroes must meet high intellectual standards-St. Augustine, Cardinal Newman, John Ruskin and, his greatest hero of all, Samuel Johnson. "There's practically no such thing as a real tradition of conservatism in America," he says. "The right and the left today are just splintered forms of 19th century liberalism. Both the contemporary right and left subscribe to the view of the state founded on justice. But the conservatives conceive of a society based on social affection and concords...
...Barrage. Besieged by irate telephone calls, the station decided Miller's right-wing opinions might escalate tensions, and it immediately pulled Miller off the air until the "whole thing died down." That only brought an even hotter barrage of pro-Miller calls, and the station was forced to close down its switchboard and post police outside the studios. Housewives picketed the station. The Greater Chicago Police Association reacted by naming Miller their Man of the Year...
Nixon's step was highly unusual, but he has had experience with this sort of thing. The last time that a Pacific case came up for decision was in 1961, when Vice President Nixon watched Dwight Eisenhower express his irritation over high-altitude lobbying by foreign and domestic airlines. Ike tossed the whole matter back to the CAB for a new version -during his last 24 hours in office...
...influenza outbreak, the symptoms vary widely. Some specialists in epidemics and infectious diseases are convinced that the virus labeled A2-Hong Kong-68 is proving more variable than most preceding strains. For one thing, many victims describe symptoms that seem conspicuously different from those of the patient next door. One man may suffer a three-day bout of sniffling, coughing, headache and muscle twinges, with little fever, while his neighbor may run a high fever, return to work after a miserable week in bed, and promptly suffer a disabling relapse...