Word: vests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOUGH be led at various times the Faculty's conservative caucus last spring, Dunlop has little ideology outside a belief in collective bargaining and democracy. He makes himself useful by keeping his views to himself, a straightforward pragmatist who likes to play it close to the vest. Roger Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English and member of the Committee of 15, describes him as follows: "Conservative is too negative a description. It's what you call someone when there's nothing else to say. Dunlop's honesty is the most expressive thing about him. His word is absolutely reliable, though...
Shaw's aid to Harris, one of his early patrons and editors, went as far as a vest-pocket biography, full of Shavian anecdotes that Shaw wrote in a parody of Harris' journalistic style and entitled "How Frank Ought to Have Done It." His unique stunt no doubt contributed to Harris' actual Shaw biography. But Shaw saw to it that his stories enhanced Shaw too, offering witty cracks about himself, which he attributed to his contemporaries. One was supposedly by Oscar Wilde: "He has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like...
...Anxious to damp down the incendiary emotions aroused by the fire, the Israelis held a press conference on the Jewish sabbath-an unprecedented peacetime action-to announce the arrest. Police emphasized that Jerusalem Arabs provided the most important clues by giving them a description of the man and a vest that had been torn from him as he fled from the scene. Said an Israeli police official: "We have enough evidence for any court in this country to convict...
...hole in a wall, just a few yards from the observers' living quarters. When firing began again, Plane and a Chilean colonel moved to a window to take a look-just in time for Plane to catch a piece of shrapnel in the neck above his armored vest. He died instantly...
...moon walk, known in space jargon as "Extravehicular Activity," or EVA. Charlesworth admits he liked EVA least of all the mission's activities, "because there just wasn't much I could do." Other flight directors for Apollo 11 were Gene Kranz, 35, who wears a white vest to match his team's color; Milt Windier, 37 (maroon), and Glynn Lunney, 32, whose black team handled the lift-off from the moon and Eagle's rendezvous with Columbia...