Word: needful
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...think that the Business Board constitutes an absolutely invaluable business experience, you are likely to be dead wrong. As an organization through which well over $100,000 is annually circulated; as an advertising medium that can, if it likes, reject advertisements, and need never to turn to that foul blot on the narrow lapel of a businessman's dignity, the 'suck ad," for sustenance--the Crimson is a king in a rainy country, a monarch inthe city of Cambridge...
...camera and darkroom. Not so; this spirit must be exorcised. Conjuro te, Satanass for all kinds of photographers is the Board a haven. It is just that, in fact, for those who have never seen the inside of a camera. For this, as for all Boards, you need absolutely no experience whatever; so if you have often expressed a longing to photograph well, to develop, fix, enlarge, engrave, and mount pictures, and to design photography layouts for features, translate this longing into action; of such stuff are great men made...
...nagging dispute between the Air Force and the Navy over control of the Navy's Polaris missile-submarine system. The Air Force, claiming the right to hit strategic targets, wanted to put assignment of Polaris targets under control of the Strategic Air Command. The Navy, claiming the need for seagoing expertise, wanted Polaris targeting left up to Navymen. In another day the fight would have boiled out into angry headlines. But Gates set up the interservice strategic target team, headed by SAC Commander General Thomas S. Power, to keep track of all U.S. strategic forces and make sure that...
...Mere Intention. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was hardly back from his year in London when the northern emirs, suddenly confronted with the need to find literate occupants for the northern seats in the federal assembly, pressed him into service. Like the emirs themselves, Abubakar started off with the fear that in a unified Nigeria the backward North itself would be swamped by the vigorous, better educated South. "Nigerian unity," he told the assembly, "is only a British intention for the country. It is artificial, and ends outside this chamber...
Brandt went on: "Least of all do I need to justify the fact that, even in my youth, I was a consistent enemy of the [Nazi] regime that brought us terror and war and meant the worst national betrayal." In his twelve-year Scandinavian exile, he said, he had won "the knowledge of how a state based on law can be made into a true home for the people...