Word: chats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ducky Chat. If Kinsey began the trial a lonely stranger, by week's end he knew that his case had been handled by a sharp and knowing criminal lawyer. Georgiadis even produced a surprise witness: Mrs. Charlotte Dennett of Riverside, Conn., the mother of the dead girl. "It's good to see you, Bill," she said, as she embraced the defendant. Mrs. Dennett, ex-wife of the late Raymond Dennett, a former director of the World Peace Foundation, took the stand to give evidence in a quiet voice. While she fought back tears, she identified a letter that...
...polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough, but except to be photographed, Verwoerd refused to appear in public with Chief Jonathan. So the visitor had his chat, adjourned to lunch in a private room in a hotel-and flew home the same day to avoid the embarrassment of no room in Pretoria's whites-only hotels for the night...
...relations frayed to the breaking point, President Humberto Castello Branco flew to Recife fortnight ago for a 40-minute chat with Cámara. The talk was secret, but its results were evident. Last week Castello Branco ordered the truculent General Portugal and his two top aides transferred out of the Northeast, named moderate officers to replace them...
Last week Nickerson withdrew from the contest, and Kennedy invited O'Connor down to his McLean, Va., home for breakfast and a chat. In a sense, Kennedy was also coming to O'Connor's table. He pledged preconvention neutrality, which was all that O'Connor needed for the virtual assurance that he would get the nomination to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term...
...such sources were available and used, the Administration, especially the President, might be convinced that the press was genuinely interested in the hard choices he faced instead of "getting the sensational story." Reston's ideal seems to be a return to the FDR days and the fire side chat, where national problems were unveiled before an excited and compassionate national audience...