Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tocsin has two purposes, said Peter Goldmark '62, a member: to get its ideas talked about, and to influence government. As an example of the latter, Goldmark told the audience that he and Robert Weil '61, Tocsin president, had been invited to confer with top officials in the Disarmament Section...
In conclusion, Tocsin presented a three-point plan toward a nuclear test ban, urging the U.S. to continue its moritorium on tests "as long as there exist reasonable prospects of a satisfactory agreement," and to invite other parties in test-ban negotiations to participate in Project Vela, a U.S. research...
Only the Eisenhower Administration, it seems not too frivolous to assert, could ever have gathered together a group of extremely distinguished men and given them the name "The President's Committee on National Goals." And, perhaps, only this administration could have conceived and executed the entire project with an air...
The committee evidently surprised the New York Times with the vagueness and vacuity of its report. After all, the Times protested, a committee that will not publish what a large number of its members suggested--a recommendation that the Connally Amendment be repealed--is not likely to broadcast anything else...
The Times is easily astonished. It is difficult to guess what they expected beyond the easy, frothy flow of cliches that must always accompany such projects. If businessmen, professional men, and scholars do not have some well-defined purpose to fulfill (as do, say, the members of the American Assembly...