Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before his brief visit with Johnson, Dean Rusk and other Administration officials, Wilson stopped off in New York for some plain talk to what he once called the "gnomes"-the world financiers. Assembled by the Economic Club of New York at the Waldorf, they got a Yorkshireman's earful. Wilson began by ribbing those "who have backed with good money" their belief that Britain would be forced to devalue the pound and who are now "licking their wounds, as I warned them they would." He added the neatly cynical point that if he had intended to devalue the pound...
Fortnight ago, Augstein's lawyer gave the judge who will hear the case in May a 73-page brief, accusing Strauss of all sorts of corruption, from lying in the Bundestag to consorting with "women of uncertain profession...
Outside his orbiting capsule in his own space suit, an astronaut will be a man beset by problems. A brief pulse of power from a backpack rocket will start him moving in any direction he desires, but it will take another carefully calculated pulse to stop him, still others to move him up, down, backward or into a turn. How will he handle the continuous need to control his versatile little rocket without letting that one job keep him too busy for other useful work...
...Show-offs!" huffed another. They hadn't seen anything yet. Warming up for the third round, Nicklaus belted six drives the length (280 yds.) of the practice tee, sending each soaring over a clump of pine trees onto a six-lane highway beyond. He held a brief courtesy conference with some golf-equipment sales representatives. Then he started for the first tee. "Sorry, fellows," he said, "it's time for me to go to work...
King began his visit with a brief courtesy call on Gov. John A. Volpe, whom he praised for "your great support in the struggle for civil rights." King then went on a three-hour tour of Roxbury...