Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will remain. He has already recruited his former managing editor, general editor, art editor and advertising manager. They now work with Cousins in a modest mid-Manhattan office with a noncommittal sign on the door that reads N.C. AND COLLEAGUES. He has also signed up former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and Architect Buckminster Fuller as members of his editorial board...
...power between oil possessors and oil users were very much on the minds of negotiators in Geneva. Both sides were bargaining for advantage, but neither seemed to know precisely where the best position lay. Said Gerrit A. Wagner, a senior managing director of Royal Dutch/Shell, the largest non-U.S. industrial business: "There is great concern in most OPEC countries that they will go too far and kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. They know that there is a point beyond which they should not raise the price. But they do not yet know where that point...
Harvard coach John Lee predicted that the less-than-challenging meet would be more than a laugher. "MIT isn't too bad this year. They lost to U Mass by a sizeable margin, and we beat U Mass pretty easily in December. But MIT is strong in the first two weight classes," Lee said...
...Special Action Group, a unit of the National Security Council, which were attended by up to 19 representatives of such agencies as the CIA, AID, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State and Defense departments. The dialogue at the meetings turned out to be coolly colloquial. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson referred to the emerging nation of Bangladesh as "an international basket case," while Henry Kissinger argued that at least it need not be "our basket case." Pakistanis were always called "Paks," and the two sections of that nation were the East and West "wings." An impending U.S. decision became...
Wiesner. And there are many other examples. You mentioned, for instance, the U-2, and the extensive border penetration by U.S. electromagnetic intelligence in the '60's. When I first told Kennedy about it, he said, "My God, if the Russians did that to us, we'd go to war." And it was top secret, so secret that I, as science advisor, had a hard fight to learn about it. And after I finally had a briefing on it, I asked a colleague, "Who the hell are they keeping it from? The Russians know about it." And we concluded...