Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexicans call it "guided democracy," and by some alchemy the system does seem to operate as a sort of national consensus. Last week Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz marched to the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies to make his first state-of-the-nation address after nine months in office. His speech was a remarkable definition of Mexico's sense of stability, leadership and nationhood...
...made the author a favored social companion and an influential if unofficial adviser. She and her husband, Sir Robert Jackson, a former U.N. official and economist who specializes in helping emerging nations develop their resources, have visited the White House five times. Before the President gave his inaugural address, he called Barbara Ward in London and read it for her approval over the phone. And in recent months she has fed the President's top personal aide, Jack Valenti, a steady stream of memos offering advice on all manner of problems...
...blueprint unveiled by the U.S. at the Geneva disarmament talks. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, though none too pleased with a plan that could leave West Germany out in the cold bombwise, had politely praised it as "an interesting contribution." Erhard agreed, but not der Alte. In an address at Münster, one of some 50 campaign appearances scheduled by the doughty ex-Chancellor, he lashed out at the plan as "atrocious, dangerous and basically false, so monstrous and so terrible that in the long view it delivers Europe into the hands of the Russians...
...invented the traveler's check in 1891, American Express Co. has been concerned with the problems of U.S. tourists. For the more than 1,500,000 Americans who travel abroad annually-the total is up 20% this year -its 408 offices around the world serve as mailing address, bank, guide, interpreter, travel agent and meeting place. They also take on such tasks as searching for daughters who have not written home and getting quick attention for those who become ill. Best known for its virtually loss-proof checks-which have become one of the world's most trusted...
Ludwig Erhard's maiden foray in his six-week election campaign began with an address in the nation's largest egg auction hall. There some 2,000 farmers and their families in the Saxon market town of Cloppenberg stood stolidly as the Chancellor launched into his basic campaign theme for 1965: the need to develop in West Germany a formierte Gesellschaft, meaning a well-ordered society, with equal restraint on government regimentation and private "stomach filling and greed." The Saxon farmers interrupted Erhard neither for catcalls nor clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom...