Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Green Light. One of Nixon's most vexing problems has been to find a tactful way to avoid being a prisoner of the Administration's record. On the heels of his Lincoln declaration, Nixon got a welcome green light from the White House. "He would be absolutely stupid," President Eisenhower told his press conference last week, "if he said that you were going as far as the record of this Administration would carry you and then stop." Added Ike: "If he doesn't say that he is going to build on what has been so far accomplished...
...world's most belligerent peace lover, and loud public opponent of all nuclear testing, could Nikita avoid denouncing France in strong terms? The answer came clear when, after a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, Khrushchev encountered De Gaulle in Rambouillet's 16th century Hall of Marble. "Hurrah for France!" cried Nikita...
...down on proliferating specialized courses. In their place the faculty must achieve some sort of philosophic unity for the students. "We cannot go on expecting each student to achieve a synthesis on his own when we as a faculty cannot do it." The second task: finding "some way to avoid sweeping surveys, and rethinking the preponderance of lecture courses." To underscore his point, McCord quoted David Hume: "There is nothing to be learned from professors which is not to be met with in books." Continued McCord: "If theological seminaries are to stand with integrity in the academic world," there must...
Every pilot is familiar with ordinary turbulence, which is generally caused by thunderstorms or some other violent weather disturbance in the lower atmosphere. Pilots avoid the worst bumps by dodging the thick clouds in which vertical air currents hide. Radar helps by spotting the veils of rain or hail that mark the violent heart of a storm. But clear air turbulence is invisible both to human eyes and to any known kind of radar...
...Suspects fleeing across state lines to avoid prosecution for bombings or threats to bomb shall be guilty of a federal crime. ¶Federal assistance may be provided for the education of servicemen's children where local schooling is disrupted by integration disputes...