Word: transients
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...last can of pork and beans. Said North Hollywood Grocer Sam Goldstad: "They're nuts. One lady's working four shopping carts at once. Another lady bought twelve packages of detergents. What's she going to do, wash up after the bomb?" Yet for all such transient evidences of panic, the U.S. was solidly behind Kennedy. As he himself had discovered on his election-year forays around the nation, it was the overriding wish of almost all Americans to "do something" about Cuba...
...have no time for the transient or the immediately applicable and quickly advantageous." See EDUCATION, Dean of Deans...
...imaginative alternatives to the broad base of Yale undergraduate education that DeVane accepts as his primary responsibility. Noting the "increasingly fierce specialization of the graduate schools"-which eventually draw 75% of Yale College graduates-he insists on maintaining the breadth of liberal arts. "We have no time for the transient or the immediately applicable and quickly advantageous," he once explained to a gathering of Yale parents. "We aim to give the student the solid and permanent studies of man's concerns, a long view of man's life and a vision of the greatness to which...
...prices while undertaking, in turn, to continue to buy the Algerian wine surplus. The continuation of French aid to Algeria is expected to run to $700 million a year. In this mutual binding of wounds, the Moslem anger toward France and, indirectly, toward all the West, may prove as transient as did the Allies' anti-German and anti-Japanese feelings after World...
Died. Robinson Jeffers, 75, solitary poet of gloom, whose half-century of tragic, ironic verse won the 1960 Shelley Memorial Award; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Best known for his vividly free adaptation of Euripides' Medea, he judged civilization as "a transient sickness," wrote from the tower of a massive granite house that he built near the rugged Big Sur region of the California coast...