Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debts, and other members of the family have made contributions. A close friend of Ethel's, recalling the "extravagance of the ebullient life" that she, Bob and the children enjoyed, hints that income and outgo run a neck-and-neck race in her household as in the ordinary American...
That human dimension is now gone. In the third generation, so critical in the history of great American fortunes, that absence may reduce the Kennedys to a family of nice rich people related to a former President...
BEFORE the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviets boasted that the first American to land on the moon would find a Russian there to welcome him. As the third and fourth American astronauts walked on the lunar surface, no Russian had yet ventured more than a few hundred miles into space. The prospects for an imminent Soviet manned lunar mission dimmed even further last week when it was revealed that the Russian space program had recently been struck by a major disaster...
...Helsinki's Kaivohuone restaurant, which usually echoes to the beat of restrained rock and the coo of unescorted birds at the bar, U.S. Chief Delegate Gerard Smith and his Soviet counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonov, clinked champagne glasses and exchanged pledges of good will while the other American and Russian delegates chatted with one another and munched smoked reindeer canap...
Tails They Win. Though the neutral Finns are excellent hosts, the Americans were extremely unhappy about security arrangements. No more than 100 yds. from the U.S. consulate, where the 26-man American delegation has its temporary offices, there are three apartment buildings. U.S. security men suspect that KGB agents, who are known to be active in Helsinki, have set up electronic surveillance devices in them in order to eavesdrop on the American delegation...