Word: name
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency. In fact not Nixon but his press secretary Herbert Klein, editor on leave from the San Diego Union, did the honors. Amiable Herb Klein called in some of the Washington press corps for a 20-min. press conference, said casually that Nixon had "willingly" let his name be entered for the G.O.P. primaries in New Hampshire, Oregon and Ohio. Nixon, he added, would not go into the states to campaign-"not even once." Said Klein: "His main concern in the months ahead will be working with the President on tasks of the Administration." Does the Vice President foresee...
...crisis bore the name of the man most closely identified with the one big success of the De Gaulle era-Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. Hopefully, peace may one day crown De Gaulle's efforts in Algeria, history may yet regard De Gaulle's generosity to the restless states of French West Africa as high statesmanship, but the one here-and-now triumph of the regime has been economic. And that is the province of short, commonsensical Antoine Pinay, 68, onetime leader of the powerful right-wing Independents in France's National Assembly and one of the Fourth...
...Heresy. Having examined suicide, in The Rebel he had turned to the problem of murder-the murder committed in the name of future Utopias. "End satisfies the means?" he demanded. "Is this possible? But what will justify the ends?" Sartre raged against him, and their quarrel reverberated through those intent Left Bank circles whose proud boast is that they dispute only about essentials. Sartre's onetime great and good friend, Simone de Beauvoir, cruelly lampooned Camus' life and loves in her novel The Mandarins...
...himself did not know. "If one could create a party of those who are not sure they are right," he said, "it would be mine." Yet, at last, the heavy weight of nihilism and Marxism seemed lifted. "It may be necessary to fight a lie in the name of a quarter-truth," said Camus. "That is our situation at present. The quarter-truth that Western Civilizations contain is called liberty. Without liberty it is possible to improve heavy industry, but not to increase justice or truth...
...Name & Rank. In Norwich, Conn., a man who broke into the Veterans of Foreign Wars clubhouse and robbed the cigarette machine signed the guest book: "Burglar...