Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks the great silver-and-blue jet had chased the sun. Then, carrying Lyndon Johnson on the last leg of his Asian odyssey, Air Force One changed course. Soaring over the slender, gilded spires of Bangkok's temples, it wheeled south for a brief stopover in Kuala Lumpur, was subsequently scheduled to head northeast for Seoul, the last Asian capital on the President's itinerary. Behind lay the summit conference in Manila and Johnson's his toric visit to South Viet Nam, the first trip ever made by a U.S. President to a foreign battlefield save...
There are also Harvard graduate students. The Law students are stereotyped as very intense and perpetually accompanied by a brief case. But, in general, the grad students rate high, especially if they didn't go to Harvard College. These men, the girls feel, lack the undergraduate's sneering attitude and thus will take out a Lesley girl readily, also while showering her with Harvard's social advantages...
...encamped at an elevation of 13,000 feet in the Peruvian mountains; the other will be airborne during the brief moments on the morning of November 12 when the moon's shadow will blot out the disc...
...ugliest scene that Johnson has ever encountered. The Secret Serv ice decided to take no chances, ordered the cavalcade to gun through the streets at 30 m.p.h., leaving thousands of friendly Australians with no more than a disappointingly brief, blurred glimpse of the Johnsons as they whizzed...
Saigon's sputtering Cabinet crisis flared again last week, and in its brief glare, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky began looking like an artful Asian politician. Once again the dissident Southerners in Ky's 26-man Cabinet tendered their resignations en masse. Their aim: to undercut Northern influence in the government and solidify a Southern bloc of soldiers and civilians for next year's national elections. The seven dissidents reasoned that Ky would do anything to avoid a messy internal dispute on the eve of the Manila Conference. "The general idea," said one Southern Cabinet Minister...