Word: chats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then & Now. At one point during the week, Richard Nixon stepped from the White House into the crisp night air, paused for a moment to chat about his job. "I have no new duties," said Vice President Nixon, "but because I have been working more in the fields of foreign policy and defense, I am in a better position to help. The job changes. Five years ago the concentration was more on politics; now it's more on the Administration problems. Five years ago I wouldn't have been in such a position...
...flare of border battles between Moroccan irregulars and Spanish forces (see FOREIGN NEWS)-and ceremonial dinners, luncheons and receptions, the King found dramatic ways to point up his country's ties with the U.S. Stopping off at A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters for a sip of orange juice and a chat with President George Meany, he recalled that the A.F.L. and C.I.O. had helped to organize trade unions in Morocco. Meeting the Washington press corps, he proudly told of Morocco's press freedom. At a reception given by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, he observed that his country had established...
...pressed the largest number of disks in history dedicated to " the "books that talk." The spoken word most effectively fires the powder train of the imagination in excerpts from such classics as Shakespeare and the Bible, but confirmed audiles can find plenty of esoteric items, ranging from a cozy chat with a prostitute ("It's no kind of life for anybody") in Cast the First Stone (Dolphin) to the singsong incantations of drugged natives ("Chjon nka sikjane-nia tso'') in the Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico (Folkways...
...French promptly rejected the offer on the ground that it meant recognition of the rebels. The Algerians retorted that they were interested only in negotiations based on "independence," not sovereignty. But French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau termed the tone of the Rabat offer "moderate," and Bourguiba, in a radio chat with his people, predicted that it would assist the "ripening" of cease-fire sentiment inside France...
...their minds as to who the "undesirable people" were--and so they cleared away. "We spent the night in the shrubs," he said. "It was raining, it was very cold, and it was very unpleasant--but who cared?" In the morning they started toward Budapest, had "a pleasant chat with the Russians" on the way, and "somehow, climbing, sneaking, and waiting in gates, we got through the lines to Budapest...