Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwise for the President--whose pronouncements after all carry considerably more weight than those of a normal Meet the Press guest--to appear live on any television program where he has no control over what is to be said. Even an articulate man like Kennedy cannot always avoid the kind of slips that marred almost every Eisenhower conference. With millions of people looking on, there is no time for the hasty Hagerty correction before the mistake has had its effect. The news conference is a particularly ill-designed instrument to serve as a major element in Presidential policy...
...would be neither a great increase nor decrease in the number of students taking History tutorial under the new plan. Dean Monro, instrumental in the new legislation, has said that the number of students changing into tutorial would probably cancel out the number of those who would prefer to avoid tutorial and thesis work to seek the Honors degree in General Studies...
From Family Patriarch Joe Kennedy came the word that Jack had divested himself of all personally held stocks and bonds during the last two months. The proceeds (amount undisclosed) were then invested in state, municipal and Government bonds to avoid financial conflict of interest. The President-elect is also the beneficiary of three irrevocable trust funds set up for the Kennedy children in 1926, 1936 and 1949 by their father. The three trust funds produce a net income of about $100,000 after taxes for each of the seven living Kennedy children-from investments in corporate stocks and bonds...
...Minister (called just that on a panel program), and the adulation of British youth. His agent tries to tie the two together: "What does our act lack?--Religion;" Bongo treats a massive television audience to his second hit song, "The Madonna on the Second Floor." It is hard to avoid feeling nauseous when his mother turns out to be the Madonna, when you remember that, as the minister has said, "this will contribute to the pleasure of millions of little people...
...American Airlines has received three modified Electras and Eastern one. By summer Lockheed says all 165 planes in service will be modified. The lines do not want to fly the modified Electras at top speed (400 m.p.h.) until their fleets are almost fully converted, to avoid disrupting schedules based on the slower speeds...