Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wine for the Basso. Khrushchev him self stayed outwardly calm. In the midst of the crisis, he took 3½ hours to chat with a visiting American, Westinghouse Electric Vice President William E. Knox, who was in Moscow for a conference on industrial research. Spotting a picture of bearded Karl Marx on the wall, Knox moved Khrushchev to guffaws by remarking: "I didn't know that Marx was a Cuban." When Rumania's Communist leaders came through town, Khrushchev took them to a 3¾-hour performance of Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theater, where he loudly applauded...
...French industrialists and technicians to aid in reopening Algeria's closed factories, and to see that French doctors and teachers returned to their posts. Though an avowed socialist, Ben Bella insisted that Algeria would have "a mixed economy including both state and private industry." In an hour-long chat with Russia's Andrei Gromyko, Ben Bella did more listening than talking. Gromyko hammered at the "wrong" policies of the U.S., and added that Russia "is ready to give you help in all your needs." Ben Bella answered: "All assistance will be highly appreciated because we need everything...
...City Ballet arrived only a few days before Stravinsky departed, after a half-hour chat with Premier Khrushchev. Neither Balanchine nor his dancers could miss the tremendous impact that Stravinsky's visit had already had on Russian musicians long shut off from the fresh currents of Western musical thought. Russian music would not be the same again. Neither, chances were, would Russian dance...
...been a folksy campaign talk, pleasantly short. The voters who had gathered in the United Congregational Christian Church of Conneaut, Ohio, picked up their coffee and cake, looked around to chat with the candidate. He was not in sight. Newsmen, along to report the gubernatorial campaign in one of the nation's key races, finally found Republican James Allen Rhodes, 53, dribbling a basketball in the church...
...dancing with France's Ambassador Alphand, Millionaire Charles Wrightsman, a Palm Beach neighbor, cut in. President Kennedy proved more of a wanderer than a dancer; he frequently left the presidential table to greet and joke with guests. Totally relaxed, he seemed solemn only once, during a ten-minute chat with Brother Bobby, presumably about the crisis in Mississippi. He was coaxed onto the floor twice, dancing with his sister Eunice and with Mrs. Frederick Gushing, daughter of an old friend, Mrs. John R. Fell...