Word: informing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...speaking requests a week, is regularly gone from Thursday to Tuesday. Economist-Author John (The Affluent Society) Galbraith gets so many requests that he files them by continent. Schlesinger's schedule is so crowded that he leaves itineraries by the telephone so his children can inform callers, and incidentally themselves. Chemist George B. Kistiakowsky has not even been at Harvard for the past year but in Washington as President Eisenhower's science adviser. Budget Director Bell is now off to Washington-after living part time in Pakistan since 1954 as the country's economic consultant...
Burdened Conscience. The heirs to that tradition face a momentous choice today, as Murray sees it. The modern rationalist and pragmatist experiment, he feels, has failed. That experiment tried to carry on Western liberalism, whose roots are Christian, without Christianity. The individual conscience, lacking religion to inform...
...life since their marriage, last week's Docklands Settlement Ball, a charity affair long one of Margaret's favorites, proved beyond resistance. Notified on very short notice that the Princess and her party of 20 would be there, the ball's tossers had little time to inform some 500 invited white-tie guests that Tony and his male companions would attend in dinner jackets and no decorations (of which Armstrong-Jones, as it happens, has none). The word forthwith went out that white ties were not obligatory-but too late. Tony & Co. were virtually alone in their...
...weather thickened, De Gaulle was reported ready to put the question of Algerian peace to a referendum in France. At week's end he sent Defense Minister Pierre Messmer and Armed Forces Chief General Paul Ely to Algeria to survey prospects for a unilateral cease-fire and to inform the army that the destination is ultimately an independent republic...
...mutinous Congolese army, presumably searching for Belgians, had shot an unknown white man near Kasongo; the body was found on a bar along the bank of the Lualaba River. At first there was hope, but last week Mark's family opened a terse telegram from Washington: DEPARTMENT REGRETS INFORM YOU . . . BODY OF PERSON IS THAT OF MARK. HIGGINS...