Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Adlai Stevenson, admittedly, set out in 1956 to "talk sense to the American people" and in fact did just that, but it can't be shown that the experience did the American people much good. They voted for a man who very clearly didn't talk sense, and probably only a small minority of those who supported Stevenson did so because of his "sense" and not for other, less rational reasons...
...choice is, as Senator Kennedy has said, between two philosophies of government, if non-government can be called a philosophy. The Republicans offer a government that speaks only when spoken to; whose method of operation is that of reaction to stimuli; whose policy toward strangers is to set up a Neighborhood Protection Association; whose policy toward enemies is to slap and howl when stung and to exchange insult for insult; whose policy at home is to throw the dogs a crumb when their barking becomes too loud. The Democrats, on the other hand, offer the promise of systematic programs...
...votes will be taken by written ballots and can be passed by a simple majority of those voting, the Council decided. The Board of Hall Presidents will set up specific rules regarding room inspection and "open doors...
...Council also supported the sentiments of the students as expressed in the dining hall poll last week by passing a set of resolutions affirming the present system as superior to any that might include the cutting of allotments on meat, milk and butter...
Onto the market came Brand X Window Cleaner, an efficient, pastelike cleaner invented by former Eisenhower Bodyguard Harry Chafvin Jr., who set up his own Brand "X" Corp. to manufacture the paste and a Brand "X" polishing cloth. Going to market this week are Brand "X" cigarettes, put out by three young Manhattan admen who founded Brand "X" Enterprises. Inc. Brand "X" cigarettes are designed "for the man who is satisfied with nothing less than second best." Says Martin Solow, president of Brand "X" Enterprises: "There are millions of people who don't want to be first, who believe...