Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...them for what was a tough job. Those who criticize them have no professional standing in the field they speak of. It is little wonder that the younger generation has to blow up buildings to get some of these people, who have minds like concrete -all mixed up and set solid-to listen. Most people over 30 were born with an open mind, and that was the last instant they...
Nixon took dancing lessons to please his steady college date, Ola Florence: one night he appeared at her house, announced that he could dance and immediately proved it. Says Ola Florence: "He was smart and sort of set apart. I think he was unsure of himself, deep down." Another Whittier girl remembers: "He didn't know how to be personable or sexy with girls, He didn't seem to have a sense of fun. I felt a kind of amused affection for him, like, 'Oh. Dick, come off it.'" However, Nixon really let go the night...
...Bill Perdue, "was boosted through a transom, found a key and located the records," Jackson reports. (It was a bad trip: Nixon discovered that he was no longer one of the top three students in his class.) In the Navy, at the Green Island airstrip in the Solomons, Nixon set himself to learning poker so that he could get into the almost nightly high-stakes games. Once he mastered the game, "I never saw him lose," one Navy buddy says. "He might win $40 or $50 every night." Another remembers: "He was the finest poker player I ever played against...
...severity of Kremlin rhetoric stunned U.S. officials. As Gromyko may have been advised by Moscow before reaching the White House, the plane was unarmed and carried no spy gear. A twin-engine cruiser, it had set out from the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, carrying the head of the U.S. military-aid mission in Turkey, Major General Edward C.D. Scherrer; his deputy for ground forces, Brigadier General Claude M. McQuarrie Jr.; Major James P. Russell Jr., the pilot; and Colonel Cevdat Deneli, a Turkish liaison officer. Their mission was to inspect Turkish forces at Kars, some 20 miles from...
...been a change of government, but that there is an active government at all." Last week, however, as the new Parliament convened for its fall term, the Prime Minister finally began to make good on his promise to undertake "revolution so quiet and yet so total" that it will set the pattern for British development for the next 20 years...