Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past six years, the top positions in the State Department have been occupied primarily by eminent lawyers, bankers, and foundation officials, who first became involved in foreign affairs in subordinate roles during World War II and then became sub-Cabinet officials during the Truman years. Unfortunately, many of the veterans who might have filled the recent vacancies are simply too old, unhealthy, or disenchanted to return to government service...
...Insect. Some of Wertham's most provocative fire is directed at the clinical cult in literature and drama, in which human suffering is viewed with such detachment that it becomes trivial. The tone of John Mersey's Hiroshima and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood reduces violence almost to the level of natural catastrophes and impersonal acts, he says. The film The Collector, n which a young lepidopterist kidnaps a girl and keeps her locked up until she dies, is more than simply a sick parody of entomology: it adds to what Werham feels is the pervasive...
...Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons; Richard Boone, director of Walter Reuther's Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty; and Economists J. K. Galbraith of Harvard and Edwin Kuh of M.I.T. are other sources. When in New York, Bobby often calls on Columbia's Dean David Truman or ex-White House Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, spends hours discussing issues with them by way of clarifying his own thoughts. Constantly on the lookout for new academic and legal talent is Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith, who directs old Joe Kennedy's interests in New York...
...rapprochement, the evidence of the polls continues to gnaw at Lyndon Johnson. He can take solace from a couple of hopeful facts. One is that other Presidents have dipped to even more drastic depths of disfavor and have then recovered-most notably, Abe Lincoln in 1864 and Harry Truman in 1948. Another is that many citizens will eventually realize that Bobby has soared in the polls at least partly because he does not have to shoulder the onus of high office. "If Kennedy were President," says Democratic Congressman Morris Udall (Stewart's brother), "he'd have the same...
...heroine's. Both present problems, and before the problems are solved, poor Tony and Senta have been pursued through some of the finest scenery in Morocco by a couple of hilariously heinous international crooks portrayed by Herbert Lorn and a new menace named Klaus Kinski, who looks like Truman Capote with muscles...