Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't work. A few SDS people, suspecting such a ploy, had stayed behind when the decoy car attempted to pull out. When McNamara was hustled toward the Mill St. gate and a waiting Harvard police station wagon, the students refused to budge. The crowd gathered around, a shouting match ensued, and police hustled McNamara over to Leverett House. He eventually left the scene via the underground tunnel system, surfacing at Kirkland House. The incident left both the Institute and the University shell-shocked. "I'm amazed that students at Harvard College would use tactics like that," commented John...
...evident during a flight eleven days earlier. All that could be definitely identified was work on a wharf and on some new barracks. In itself this was not unusual. What made it of more than passing significance was another piece of intelligence: a flotilla of Soviet ships was heading toward Cuba; a submarine tender, a guided-missile cruiser, a guided-missile destroyer, an ocean-going salvage tug, a heavy salvage ship, a merchant tanker and an amphibious landing ship carrying two 80-ft. barges. The tender and the barges were of a type normally used for servicing nuclear submarines...
...nuns. Armed with 81 shares of Blue Diamond stock, the 750-member Sisters of Loretto, a teaching order based in Denver, last week joined twelve other parties in bringing a lawsuit against the company. The nuns' eventual aim, as one of them describes it: to urge the company toward greater "corporate responsibility...
...complete without the saga of my shirts. Knowing the vicissitudes of a hectic twelve-day trip through Asia, I had asked my aide Dave Halperin to be sure to set aside a couple of clean shirts specifically for Peking. As the Pakistani plane took off from Chaklala and soared toward the Himalayas, Halperin, who had come to see me off, was stunned by the realization that he had set aside the shirts so carefully that I could not have packed them; at this thought he became physically sick. I was aghast when, in the plane, I wanted to change shirts...
...statement came to be made; the Christmas bombing; the turmoil caused by antiwar protesters in the U.S.; and the peace agreement. In the final week Kissinger writes of the near confrontation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over a crisis in Jordan; the reason for Nixon's famed "tilt" toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India-and a secret decision to give major aid to Peking if the Soviets threatened China. Throughout all three parts (which, of course represent only a fraction of the full, 1,521-page book), Kissinger offers unusual insights into that remarkable figure, Richard Nixon...