Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present plans, Ribicoff will not make a formal announcement of candidacy; he will simply wait for his party's state convention to "draft" him in July. That draft is all but a foregone conclusion, particularly since Ribicoff's campaign manager will be Democratic National Committee Chairman John Bailey, who doubles as Connecticut's Democratic state chairman...
...President has given me complete freedom in running the department. In the next year, more than half of the President's program will be in health, education and welfare-just about the entire domestic program except for the tariff question." But in fact Vote Getter Ribicoff can hardly wait to return to the business of getting votes...
...Nehru, but on the whole he handles him well. Last August, after Nehru made the damaging assertion in the Indian Parliament that he could see no legal basis for Western access to Berlin, Galbraith braced Nehru with documentation. The Prime Minister admitted his error, but said that he would wait to revise his estimate until after the weekend-which would have allowed the error to sink in. At that point, Galbraith suggested a tactfully worded statement modifying Nehru's Berlin judgment. The Prime Minister smiled and, with only one change, agreed to Galbraith's wording...
...There, one floor below in glassed-off splendor, glistened the Mercury capsule that at midmonth is scheduled to carry the lean Marine lieutenant colonel on three orbits of the earth. As the sobersided ex-test pilot buckled down to his monastic, preflight regimen, his wife and kids decided to wait it out in Virginia. Said Anna Glenn: "We've had a wonderful Christmas - our very best. There's an awful lot to look forward to, you know...
...fact is that for several years now, the easiest divorce terms in the nation are to be found not in Nevada but in Alabama. A divorce seeker need show up in Alabama only long enough to meet a lawyer, pay a fee, fill out the papers and wait a few hours. The lawyer shoots off usually to a rural county, hires a local lawyer to handle the court work, gets a decree and hops back to his client. All this can take little more than 24 hours-so why go to Nevada for six weeks...