Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public smiles and warm words, the road to Glassboro had been arduous, and at times ridiculous. From Washington's viewpoint, there were at least four powerful arguments against the meeting?the four sterile cold-war Summits during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, most notably the 1960 Paris meeting that broke up over the U-2 incident as soon as it began, and John Kennedy's unhappy Viennese deadlock with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Also, Washington officialdom has a built-in predisposition against high-level meetings without detailed preparation and a concrete agenda. Finally, the Administration was opposed to a meeting...
Tough Grandfather. Before they broke for a luncheon of shrimp cocktail, roast beef and rice pilaf, they joshed about whether to eat at all. Kosygin said he was a tough grandfather. Having sipped coffee and iced tea during the morning meeting, he could go the rest of the day without food. Johnson prevailed, and lunch was served on a cloth-covered raw-wood table hastily hammered together by the White House kitchen staff, which had come up from Washington along with the food. During the meal, which was attended by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...there were sneers of "Uncle Tom." In Atlanta, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman H. Rap Brown growled: "To the brothers putting on the white hats-you are to be regarded as traitors, and will be dealt with as traitors." But in Dayton, where the youth patrol of 30 effectively broke up disorderly crowds and performed liaison between their peers and police, many Negro residents told the white hats: "God bless...
...week wore on, though, Israel was reminded that it was not as lonely as Eban had thought. Communist Rumania's Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer broke publicly with the Moscow line, called for direct "negotiations and agreements" between Israel and the Arabs. He promised his government's help in reaching a settlement based on peaceful coexistence. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg spoke up for Israel on the floor of the Assembly, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk worked energetically in a series of private sessions with delegates from Latin America and 13 French-speaking African nations...
After the première of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony at the 1902 Krefeld Festival in Germany, one reviewer concluded that "the composer should be shot." The first Vienna performance of Mahler's Fourth drove the audience to such fury that fistfights broke out all over the concert hall. Conductor Hans von Bülow refused to perform Mahler's works because they were "much too strange." In the face of such hostility, Mahler remained stoic. "My time will come," he predicted...