Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...eleven on this week's cover are Presidential Aspirant Jack Kennedy and his wife Jackie in front, flanked by his parents. Joseph and Rose, with the portrait gallery in the background showing Brother Robert-over his father's right shoulder-followed, in clockwise order, by Grandfather John ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald. Sisters Patricia Lawford, Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver. Brother Edward and Sister Rosemary...
...includes Educator James B. Conant, former Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, Dean of Harvard Law School Erwin N. Griswold, Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman John J. McCloy. "We have a choice between timidity and accepting the responsibility of world leadership," said Chairman Robert Dechert, former Defense Department counsel. "As it stands now, the fundamental evil of the Reservation is that it has provided an excuse for saying that not even the U.S., the leader of the free world, is wholehearted in its support of international judicial processes...
From abroad came a big Russian diplomatic delegation, hoping to make political hay in the first confused days. But they got short shrift, were billeted in a second-rate hotel seven miles from town. It was the U.S.'s Special Envoy Robert Murphy whose towering figure bobbed up most frequently at the side of the Congo's new leaders. As a birthday present for the country that was starting from scratch with virtually no lawyers, doctors, educators or trained administrators, he announced that the U.S. will finance scholarships for 300 Congolese students to attend American universities...
...they will be self-sufficient in machine-tool production by 1970). They keep their Soviet technicians apart in a suburb of Peking and forbid their own students in Russia to marry or keep company with Russians. They make the most of their sheer numbers. In the China Quarterly, Professor Robert C. North of Stanford University tells of talking to one gloomy Soviet engineer who had worked out the possibilities as neatly as a chess problem: "Suppose nuclear war breaks out between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Clearly, we destroy each other, and China wins. Suppose, on the other hand, that...
Even so, the U.S. sprinters, who have not lost a gold medal since 1928, seem strong enough to dominate the 100 and 200 meters, and the 400-meter relay. "To beat one American sprinter is possible," says Italy's Dr. Robert Quercetani, president of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians. "But to beat all three is something else again...