Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...been offered the kind of job he had hoped for. Kennedy got a visit, too, from New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez, who offered Kennedy a cigar. Asked the President-elect, smilingly: "Did you just have a son?" Startled, Chavez, 72, said no-and hastily put the cigar back in his pocket...
...world's Communist leaders broke up in guarded politeness, Nikita Khrushchev announced that he would like to come back to Manhattan next spring and have all the world's leaders come too. After a state visit from Cambodia's amiably neutralist Premier Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Khrushchev put his signature to a declaration that Russia and Cambodia "regard as advisable the convocation in the spring of 1961 of a special session of the U.N. General Assembly with the participation of heads of state or governments." Topic: disarmament...
...Opposition. It was now up to De Gaulle himself to put his prestige on the line again. This week he will go to Algeria to explain his policies to the French army and the hostile European colons, who are already talking of demonstrations...
Fortnight ago Dag Hammarskjold warned the U.N.'s 99 member nations that his treasury was "virtually empty." He got respectful enough sympathy from everyone else, but as usual, it was the U.S. that quietly put up the $20 million, which should carry the U.N. through to the end of the year...
...Redmond put together a tight organization, built 34 new schools, devised a system for constantly revising the curriculum. Against hot opposition, he started the Benjamin Franklin High School for bright youngsters, which graduated its first class last year ("It was in orbit before Sputnik"). His proudest memory of the first day of integration three weeks ago, when truancy was rife, is that "my Franklin kids stuck with...