Word: needful
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Germany's Konrad Adenauer was almost openly pro-Nixon during the campaign-his fears of Democratic "flexibility" on Berlin could not be laid to rest despite Kennedy's tough line. Adenauer adjusted smoothly to the outcome. "Thank God the election is over," he cried. "We need have no worries. A steady continuation of American policy will be maintained." A top French official worried privately about "the men around Kennedy-they seem overexcited about Africa and Asia. There's no one with a close connection with the European problem." But the French generally welcomed what they thought would...
...closest collaborator. British genealogists wistfully recalled that Kennedy's late sister Kathleen was the wife of the Marquess of Hartington, a nephew of Lady Dorothy. But the Spectator's editor, Ian Gilmour, predicted: "America under a Kennedy administration is going to be an exciting place. Europe will need monkey glands to keep up." One British official countered hopefully: "While the Prime Minister is older, we think he has a young mind...
...famed 18th century plastic surgeon John Hunter once summed up his professional philosophy in a single curt phrase: "Why not try?" Today's reputable plastic surgeon is less impetuous. Aware that he often operates within surgery's twilight zone-past the point of obvious physical need-he is inclined to weigh his would-be patients' motives. For advice in sticky cases, he may turn to a psychiatrist. Members of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery recently did just that when they invited Dr. Wayne E. Jacobson of the University of California at Los Angeles...
...strike lasted just one day. Theobald guaranteed no reprisals, but leaders of the teachers' union rumbled that the end was only "an honorable truce." Whether prelude or epilogue, the strike was a classic example of the dilemma facing U.S. teachers. To get needed gains in pay and treatment, they now have two rival organizations: the noncombative, 714,000-member National Education Association, which is mostly dominated by school administrators, and the aggressive, 60,000-member American Federation of Teachers, A.F.L.-C.I.O. As proved in New York last week, national labor chieftains-sensing the unpopularity of strikes that...
...Government effort is the $1 billion National Defense Education Act of 1958, which has nearly doubled the number of guidance counselors in U.S. high schools. It is still not enough. Last year high schools had only 18,500 full-time counselors for 10 million students, and they argue the need for at least twice as many. The education act does not apply to elementary school guidance which is a further weakness. And while the bill lent $57 million to 115,000 college students last year, the really needy could well use federal scholarships (promised in both political platforms...