Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible to get back to my studies-too many interviews and disturbances." So she agreed to go along with Bob Hope's Christmas troupe to Viet Nam, and that caused quite a disturbance in her neutralist homeland. Before long, even the Indian Foreign Office was pressuring her to cancel out so as not to lend her country's name to the U.S. war effort. After brooding on the matter, Reita announced: "If the show were going to Viet Nam, the Viet Cong or even the moon, I would go. I would like my government and the people...
...could not speak the language. (He took some quick lessons.) There are many lingering ethnic sensibilities on foreign affairs, notably the widespread Jewish sympathy for Israel and hostility toward the Arabs. New York's Mayor John Lindsay discovered this last June when Jewish objections impelled him to cancel a proposed luncheon in honor of Saudi Arabia's visiting King Feisal. But many such protests are carried on by professional ethnic champions who profess to speak for their people but are far from solidly supported. The press too perpetuates a great many ethnic cliches...
When a reporter referred to the "cancellation" of his campaign plans, the President snapped: "When you don't have plans, you don't cancel plans." He did a little more to widen the credibility chasm by insisting that "I didn't get weary" during his Asia trip, even though hundreds of newsmen who accompanied him noted that he looked puffy-eyed and haggard. "Most of this weariness," said the President, in one of several barbed cracks at the press, "was some of you engaging in introspection...
Edwin M. Goodhue '67, manager of the Asia Tour, said yesterday that a decision on whether to request the loan or cancel the tour entirely would not be made until January. The final decision will depend on how large a loan would be needed to cover the deficit, he added...
While Rolvaag's campaign flourished financially, Keith's never got off the ground. The whole D.F.L. endorsed slate bemoaned its lack of funds. Keith even had to cancel a television appearance the week before the election when the dollars ran out. The rats with money may have left Kenth's ship simply because it was sinking. More likely, they deserted him because of his connection with what Minnesotans -- particularly Republicans -- loosely call "the insurance scandal...