Word: turne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Richard Nixon necessarily dislikes sideburns, it's just that those who wear them rarely turn out to be his kind of people. Back when his staff first settled into the White House, the only man around sporting face feathers was former Kansas Congressman Bob Ellsworth, a presidential adviser who has since gone to Brussels as U.S. Ambassador to NATO. John Sears took Ellsworth's place as the sole representative of the sideburn set around the West Wing corridors, but by last fall he had lost out to Harry Dent as the White House political operative. The unsheared...
...Senate. He's a half-creature of the Senate and a half-creature of the executive." In recent weeks, perhaps as a result, Agnew has displayed little interest in the Senate. The pattern worries some Republicans, since it has occurred before: Agnew has a tendency to give up and turn away when rebuffed...
...possibility that talk once again might turn into violence placed added urgency on Soviet-American attempts to work out a Middle East blueprint for peace. As a result of discussions between Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco, the two nations last week were reportedly near agreement on peace terms. The U.S. is said to have conceded that Israel must return to the border with Egypt that existed before the 1967 war. Russia and the U.S. were also said to have agreed that Israel must accept the return of Palestinian refugees on a quota basis...
...action against Solzhenitsyn will not be final until ratification of the ouster by the Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Writers. Since some of the writers on the executive committee oppose the ouster, Solzhenitsyn's case may well turn into an important test in the struggle against literary repression in Russia...
...Africa south of the Sahara. It recommends that the U.S. reverse the recent trend to reduce its security assistance. "At the moment there is only one Castro among the 26 nations of the hemisphere; there can well be more in the future," says Rockefeller. Moreover, the U.S. should not turn down requests from more advanced hemisphere nations for modern military equipment. "Realistically," he explains, "it will be purchased from other sources, East or West, and this would not be compatible with the U.S.'s best interests...