Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, ASPAC's founders aimed at standing aside from the direct anti-Communist struggle in Asia, even though all its members are nonCommunist. One reason was to ensure participation by the Japanese, who are both dubious about the Viet Nam war and anxious to increase their trade with Red China. Thus at Seoul the final communique last week expressed "sympathy" with South Viet Nam's plight, affirmed the nation's right to freedom "from external aggression and subversion," and "noted with satisfaction" the aid being given by other nations to help Saigon...
Supposed Properties. Houston Endowment Inc. is a $400 million nonprofit foundation set up by the late Jesse Jones, onetime U.S. Commerce Secretary and owner of the Chronicle. Recently, the trustees of the foundation, notably President J. Howard Creekmore, became anxious to convert the paper and other Endowment holdings into cash; last December they happily accepted an offer of $85 million from Mecom. In return, Mecom was to get the Chronicle, the well-located Chronicle Building and Rice Hotel, and a 30% controlling interest in the Texas National Bank of Commerce, second largest in town. Mecom...
Harry Truman's 23% in 1951. Desperately anxious to reverse the trend, the President has fallen back on the technique of justifying his actions in terms of pledges made by his predecessors. Thus last week he explained current U.S. objectives in Viet Nam by quoting something John F. Kennedy said in 1963, two months before his assassination: "We want the war to be won, the Communists to be contained and the Americans to go home." Often he cites Dwight Eisenhower's original pledge of U.S. aid-though this tactic has opened him to some serious criticism. Illinois...
...Borneo, established diplomatic relations with Malaysia. In Tokyo, Japan agreed to an emergency $30 million loan to Indonesia, offered to bring all her international creditors together in a "Tokyo Club" to ease the pressures on Indonesia's economy. In Bangkok, Foreign Minister Thanat even hinted that Thailand was anxious to end its long-festering feud with Cambodia...
...Russians Are Coming were as good as its best actor, the laughter might reach gale force. Sad to say, Director Norman Jewison and Scenarist William Rose, working from a novel by Nathaniel Benchley, seem too anxious, or too unsubtle, to sound the depths of a delightfully quirky human comedy. Instead they try too often for ding-dong farce, calling on a corps of hard-sell comedians to transform the townfolk into strident cartoons. Jonathan Winters as an addled police officer, Ben Blue as an irrelevant drunk, and Paul Ford as a sword-swinging Legionnaire are the chief offenders, since their...