Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference, President-elect Kennedy was mum about which men he would pick for his Cabinet. That would have to wait, he said, until after his Thanksgiving weekend conference with President Eisenhower. The making of dream Cabinets spun on, nevertheless, and expert guesses from Washington centered on these names and posts...
Esteemed Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, whose editorialists had played the election as "Tweedledum v. Tweedledee," did not even wait until all the returns were in to jump on the winning side. "Esteemed Mr. Kennedy, allow me to congratulate you," he cabled. "We hope that while you are at this post the relations between our countries would again follow the line along which they were developing in Franklin Roosevelt's time...
...before dawn next day, Eisenhower arrived by helicopter at the Barlow Firehouse near his Gettysburg farm so early that he had to wait five minutes for the polls to open at 7 a.m. When asked the inevitable question, Eisenhower pointed to his wristwatch, which bore pictures of his grandchildren at four points around the dial: "That's who I voted...
...attention-getting manner that any population that increases at an accelerating rate (as the human race has been doing) is headed for ultimate trouble. Even the best food technology, he says, cannot race ahead of an ever-steepening curve. But he believes that "there is no need to wait until an external mechanism influences human activity. Since man's environment becomes less and less influenced by 'natural forces' and more and more by social forces determined by man, he himself can take control over his fate." Enter birth control. Von Foerster declares that if mankind wants...
When the break came, the reporters listened to Klein attentively, unexcited but relieved that the long wait was over. Kennedy, with his whole family in tow, appeared about as hour later...