Word: impression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument failed to impress a group of three Southern Governors convened by George and Lurleen to map strategy against the integration order. But it was bound to go down well in Alabama, where State Education Superintendent Austin R. Meadows said last summer: "Segregation is the basic principle of culture. The good segregate themselves from the bad." Avoiding euphemism, Alabama's Chief Justice J. Edwin Livingston says plainly: "I'm for segregation, and I don't care who knows it. I would close every school from the highest to the lowest before I would go to school with...
...Case of the Hollow Heel. Keating ran out of ready cash two years ago and tried to raise more money from other sources. His efforts failed to impress his editors. As they tell it, he once made a trip to Chicago to see if Playboy's Hugh Hefner could help. It took some doing just to see Hefner. "He was always sleeping or swimming in his pool," recalls Managing Editor Robert Scheer. When Keating finally got to Hefner, he drew a blank. By contrast, Hinckle and Scheer succeeded in selling stock to assorted wealthy sympathizers like Frederick C. Mitchell...
...Czech town of Mlada Boleslav last week came a set of production statistics meant to impress the West as well as local consumers. Daily output of autos from the town's Skoda plant had reached 340; by the end of this year it would rise to 400, for a total 1967 total of over 100,000 cars...
...headquarters, there is a little door with a plaque bearing the legend: "Deliver diplomatic notes here." One can imagine young foreign service officers trooping down the corridor to observe the portals through which pass the most elegant messages in the world. All of their training and experience tends to impress them with the overwhelming importance of these communications, and the somehow lesser importance of what the local ward bosses in Hamburg or Hiroshima are saying to their constituents...
...agents among student association delegates to the 1962 Helsinki World Youth Festival. Nevertheless, N.S.A. managed to limp along; its representatives continued to attend a series of international student rallies. Invariably, they found themselves outmaneuvered, outshouted and outfinanced by Communist student organizations that went out of their way to impress delegates from the underdeveloped, uncommitted nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America...