Word: robert
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...protest your downgrading of diplomacy, which since time immemorial has been outranked only by prostitution, the world's oldest profession. This intimate relationship is because they are the only two professions in which experience doesn't count. ROBERT W. RINDEN Washington...
...federal employees, a $77 billion annual budget, and a cold war on its hands-has no constitutional machinery for transferring power from one administration to another. To smooth the way, a Brookings team set up liaison with Clark Clifford, onetime counsel for Harry Truman, representing Kennedy, and Brigadier General Robert E. Cushman Jr., speaking for Nixon. Advised by a 14-man committee headed by former Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the Brookings team has interviewed some 60 top-level veterans of changeovers. Last week their accumulated wisdom went out to both candidates in the first three of ten memos...
...billion today. In September, U.S. officials spoke bluntly to Bonn's visiting Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. But the real holdout appears to be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower himself has private- ly written Adenauer asking for more German help. Later this month, both Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon will travel to Bonn to put the case to the Chancellor in person. They are considering slashing local purchases of German supplies for U.S. troops stationed in Germany; there is even talk of sending home the families of U.S. servicemen to cut dollar spending...
...test his playwrting on audiences (as indicated earlier), the Theatre Workshop gave Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Adamov's Professor Taranne, Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, Synge's Shadow of the Glen, Genet's The Maids, David English's Waiting for Goodman, Robert Shure's Twink, Ionesco's Jack and O'Neill's The Rope. The production of the last-named was totally inept, but the rest were well worth a visit, with outstanding performances by Thomas D. Griffin '61 in the Beckett, golden-voiced Laurence M. Channing...
Although the Brooklyn figure for Kennedy was about four percentage points higher than the national, it was still on the right side and almost exactly the same as his final percentage in Connecticut. The town's bellwether status was also confirmed by the President-elect's campaign manager Robert F. Kennedy '43, who as one of meter points throughout the country...