Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Rusk's father was an ordained Presbyterian minister who had to give up the pulpit because a throat ailment kept him from preaching. At the time Dean was born, the fourth of five children, the elder Rusk was scratching a living as a rural schoolteacher and a small cotton...
Dean achieved distinction of a sort at birth: he weighed an extraordinary 11 lbs.,* and he was delivered into the world by a veterinarian. He started school with the second grade, skipping the first because he had already learned to read by poring over his brothers' schoolbcoks. Term after...
The Great Seal. At age twelve, Dean drafted a clairvoyant document entitled "What I Plan to Do with the Next Twelve Years of My Life." The schedule called for finishing high school, then working for two years to earn money to go to college, then attending North Carolina's...
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Rusk is unconcerned, too, about the prospect that John F. Kennedy will be his own maker of foreign policy. As Rusk sees it, that is just the way it ought to be. "It is possible for the President to delegate too much to his Secretary of State," he says. "The...