Word: withdrawnness
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Nelson Rockefeller did not seem overly amused that he had withdrawn from consideration as Vice President in order to appease the conservatives, and now found Reagan turning to a running mate even more liberal than he. Said Rocky: "The pureblood conservatives-the ones I've come across-will not accept a voting record like Schweiker...
...Andrew, do you realize that you're a gutless chameleon?" asked Teacher Jim Searles of the shy, withdrawn teen-ager who had come for an interview at the Hyde School in Bath, Me. Andrew was close to tears, but Searles was only following the sock-it-to-'em pedagogic philosophy of his boss, Hyde Founder Joseph Gauld, 50. Faced with a rebellious applicant, Gauld once shouted, "Listen, I'm telling you either change your attitude around me or I will jam it down your throat...
...beginning of the Viet Nam affair, America's intervention in that country was halfhearted and was not aimed at achieving any definite and clear-cut goals. Following this initial stage, I believe America should have withdrawn from Viet Nam after the downfall of Sukarno in Indonesia...
...Pressure. Apparently, they will. Some combat units have reportedly been withdrawn from the south, but there are no signs of any mass exodus. Castro promised to pull out his combat troops at the rate of 200 a week, but one Cuban officer said that he did not expect them to be removed before "the end of the year and maybe not even then. We are in no hurry and under no great pressure." Thousands of technicians and civilian advisers, however, will remain...
...reason for Berlinguer's withdrawn and austere manner is that he is determined to avoid the growth of a personality cult around the man who could conceivably become Western Europe's first postwar Communist Premier. In fact, though, such a cult is growing as Berlinguer drives up and down Italy in a chauffeured Fiat, making major campaign appearances. Berlinguer himself is a shoo-in for the Chamber of Deputies; taking advantage of a curious election law, he is a candidate in three places: Rome, Venice and the mountain town of Avezzano in Abruzzi. Should he win all three...