Word: paste
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...year militancy. "I think it is rather tragic," he said, "that in the twilight of his career, the President, upon his return from Newport, should set out all the items that are embraced within the Democratic platform. I wish he had exercised the same kind of leadership during the past seven years...
Nixon: "I don't see how the Vice President could be more closely drawn into the consultative process than he has been in the past." But executive decision-making is still "my responsibility, and will be until noon...
...past two years, hefty James Wadsworth (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.) has been the U.S.'s amiable, patient No. 1 negotiator in the dragged-out test-ban negotiations with Russia. Men in the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission who are dubious of the possibility or the value of such an agreement have sometimes carped at Wadsworth for working too hard at it. But such carpings are not likely to interfere with Wadsworth's Senate confirmation as U.N. delegate. Republicans are eager to have him take over at the U.N. so that Lodge...
Rooming considerations may also help force a re-evaluation of Harvard admission procedures. For the past four years, the Summer School has grown over ten per cent annually, a rate of growth that would make it larger than Harvard College next summer...
...interlacing of flashbacks. Since the major characters are 16-year-olds, these flashbacks are mercifully short, if overly sentimental; the boys seem to have grown up surrounded by sweet, long-suffering mothers and avuncular lieutenants, with hardly a Nazi in sight. But these scenes from the boys' past merely serve as counterpoint to the adventure at the bridge and as clues to the variety of boyish responses, which range from terror to heroism. Gregor's bitter little novel labors no point, nor does it have to. The futility it illustrates would have been depressing enough even...