Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repair this communications gap that West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger flew to Washington last week for two days of private talks with President Johnson-their first meeting since their brief encounter at Konrad Adenauer's funeral last April. If the conferences did nothing concrete to settle differences, they did provide both Johnson and Kiesinger with a strong basis of personal understanding. Said one White House aide: "They emerged comfortable and confident with each other-and that's a damn big plus...
Sand-Table Practice. The arrival of the Americans intensified the Viet Cong penchant for rehearsing every attack in advance. Sand-table models of fortresses are used to brief each man on his mission. Sometimes a unit will go off into the deep jungle and construct a full-size replica of a critical
...good measure. That was no surprise, and Garrison has since filed various charges against half a dozen other witnesses. Andrews was the first to come to trial. He did not go quietly, of course, even defended himself for half of the proceedings. At one point he asked for a brief delay "so I can collect my thoughts. I just can't pop up and say da-da-da-da-da-da." Next day he added: "I don't know from nothing. What I got is a vivid imagination. The moral to all this, brother-in-law, is keep...
...attention on successful assassins; the failures usually get footnotes, at best. In the 23 years since his death by firing squad, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the German officer whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by a freakish chance, has rarely rated more than brief references. Now German Historian Joachim Kramarz has pieced together the unfortunately sketchy materials on Count Stauffenberg's life and his daring plot in a readable full-length biography...
...challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance out of it. Even then, it's a roll of the dice." And while the dice are in the air, anyone-for one brief Mittyesque moment-can be Bus Mosbacher, sailing out of Newport for the America...