Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The Vice President will then make stops in Afghanistan, Malaysia and Singapore, finally coming to rest for a few days at a plush beach hotel in Bali. Revived by dips in the Indian Ocean, a set or two of tennis and perhaps a few rounds of golf-Agnew packed his...
For Dean Rusk, the past nine years have combined adversity and irony in uncommon measure. Never outspoken, he endured silently the taunts of John Kennedy's house intellectuals and the attacks of Lyndon Johnson's congressional opponents. Never wealthy, he suffered financially from his appointment as Secretary of...
Unlike most high officials who leave the Government for well-paid positions in industry, academe or the professions, Rusk has even had trouble finding suitable employment. A Rockefeller Foundation fellowship has paid the bills since last January. He declines to indulge in the lucrative self-defense of memoir writing. And...
Rusk's latest difficulty began when Dean Lindsey Cowen invited him to become the first holder of the heavily endowed Samuel H. Sibley Professorship of International Law at the University of Georgia Law School. Cowen thought the appointment a natural for the scholarly Rusk. "The Secretary of State makes...
Personal Opposition. Though most University of Georgia law students agreed with Cowen's evaluation of Rusk, word of the selection triggered an immediate outcry from conservatives on the 15-member board of regents that must approve the appointment. Regent Roy V. Harris, editor of the racist Augusta Courier and...