Word: af
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that your grievances are just and that we'd better get some employ- ment," It was too late for pleas or promises. Buffalo, a hard-nosed manufacturing and port city on Lake Erie, rocked for the first time to the nights of violence and disorder that have already af- flicted so many other cities this year and for three hot summers before...
Kennedy started out Jan. 25 ahead of 16 other members of Congress bound for a seminar on Anglo-American af fairs at Ditchley Park in England.* By the time he returned at the end of last week, he had touched down in London, Paris, Bonn and Rome; he had talked with prime ministers and foreign ministers, Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul, students and showfolk and assorted beautiful people. With an eye to future change, he saw opposition leaders too. Bobby also wanted to meet Mai Van Bo, the North Vietnamese envoy in Paris, but U.S. embassy officials dissuaded...
...then, Nimitz was ready. From a reading of the Japanese "Purple Code," deciphered by Army cryptographers nearly a year before, naval intelligence knew an attack was planned at invasion point "AF." Washington thought that "AF" was Hawaii itself. Nimitz was certain it was Midway. He bolstered the little island with every plane he could spare, ordered nearly every ship in his command to rendezvous just outside what he thought would be the farthest radius of Japanese air patrols. Nimitz urged on his commanders the same policy principle of "calculated risk" that he himself had followed in ordering his ships...
...Dixon Donnelley, 50, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Af fairs, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, succeeding James Greenfield, who has resigned to be come an assistant vice president of Continental Airlines, under Continental Vice President (and ex-White House press secretary) Pierre Salinger...
Surfing Safaris. Even landlocked youths strap their boards on top of their cars, take off on long surfing safaris to find just the right "beach break." Af Matunuck, R.I., one of New England's surfing Shangri-las, almost a third of the cars parked bumper to bumper along the oceanfront road sport out-of-state plates. Said one surf-farer, a Wethersfield, Conn., high school senior who is president of his town's surfing club: "We travel to a different place every weekend. Next week we'll probably go to East Orleans on Cape Cod" -135 miles...