Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attend a midnight Christmas Mass and to enjoy a glittering tree surrounded by donated gifts. Inside the 20 large boxes were clothes and toys, including 15 dolls for two-year-old June and two-month-old Rachel. Marina visited with her brother-in-law, Robert Oswald, made a brief trip to her husband's grave on the outskirts of Fort Worth, and asked that a simple stone be placed above it. Well-wishers have donated $23,000 to help her rebuild her life, and with grateful sincerity, Marina Oswald could say that "I've never had a Christmas...
...even the weathered posters of Walter Ulbricht seemed to be smiling. Then, just before dark on Christmas Day, two 18-year-old East Germans made a break for the Wall. As the boys scrambled over the barbed wire, searchlights blazed and flares burst. A pizzicato of burp guns played brief counterpoint to Bing Crosby's White Christmas. Lungs shredded by Vopo bullets, Electrician's Apprentice...
...somber ceremony witnessed by Brother Ted, 31, and Sister Jean, 35, New York International Airport (Idlewild) was officially rededicated as John F. Kennedy International Airport. There were a few brief speeches and a patter of applause as the 3-ft.-high J.F.K. initials were unveiled prior to being installed atop the International Arrivals Building. It was a "fitting memorial," allowed former President Harry Truman, 79, two days later. But even so, continued H.S.T., Americans in their grief are in too much of a hurry to rename everything, "including the pups and cats. After things settle down...
...popular half-form is the adaptation, half novel and half play. A novel has the time to grow imperceptibly, like a tree, acquiring added rings of meaning. A play is more like a duel or a trial. In a brief two hours it must draw blood or render a judgment...
Just what Hardy really thought of Emma nobody knows. His letters to her, here published for the first time, are brisk, brief, clear, and concerned with those few topics Hardy could discuss with his wife without getting into an argument-the weather, wedding receptions and funerals, train schedules and cats (Emma kept a houseful). Most of the letters were written from London, where Hardy went periodically on literary business, and addressed to Emma at the country home Hardy had built in Dorsetshire...