Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President cannot be faulted for firing public servants who have proved incompetent or out of touch, and the American people will completely vindicate Mr. Carter in 1980, when they fire him on the same grounds...
...bunch of security guards toting briefcases that concealed shotguns and automatic weapons. Aboard the special car, a red curtain separated Carter and his wife from the reporters in the rear. Behind other red curtains, Army communications specialists manned telephones and telex links that kept the President in touch with the White House. A four-car pilot train ran ahead of the Metroliner so that Secret Service men could check the tracks, and three helicopters hovered watchfully overhead...
...know the narratives of his peace missions and summitry. But around almost every recent President there has developed a rich literature from the human drama that takes place at the center. We had a touch of it with Bert Lance, a bit more in Carter's talks with Begin and Sadat, then a jiggle or two in the Cabinet firings, but beyond that it is thin gruel...
...Canadian Club: the official organization for the 70-odd citizens from north of here. They try to keep in touch with Ottawa politics through occasional dinners and meetings. They also throw big parties...
...undergraduate education, however, does not extend so far as to include actual contact with many students, and even if it did, his mountains of work as dean of the Faculty would still occupy him. As chairman of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), he's in touch with students from each House and with freshmen representatives, too. But Rosovsky's attitude towards students participating in his large fiefdom surfaced during the development of the Core. At first, Rosovsky wanted to leave students entirely out of the process that would determine the courses they will have to take...