Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbus missed the riches of the East, but he'll never know how close to Wall Street he came...
...Saigon, was the instrument of American power in Viet Nam at crucial moments of the war. A number of commentators argued that his selection was a signal that Nixon was committed to a tough policy and that the Communists could hope for few concessions. They recalled Lodge's close association with South Viet Nam's impetuous Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, who heads his government's balky delegation in Paris, and interpreted Nixon's decision to retain Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in Saigon as another sign of a hardening line...
...Thompson from 1916 to 1961. He came out of World War II a major with silver and bronze stars won in the Battle of the Bulge. A Republican, he has influential friends in both parties. Negotiator Cyrus Vance was his roommate at Yale Law School, and he is extremely close to Nixon Adviser William Scranton. While he displays the McNamara traits of super-efficiency and clipped speech, Resor is known as an artful pacifier of both generals and politicians...
...major non-Communist paper in France denounced the ban on arms to Israel. In reply, De Gaulle harshly raised, through Information Minister Joël Le Theule, an old European phobia over Jewish influence in the press: "It is remarkable how Israeli influence could make itself felt in circles close to the information media." Le Monde rightly rejected the charge as "insulting...
...teachers have won backing from other labor unions and other groups of teachers in the State College chain. And although there have been fewer violent clashes in the last few days than earlier, growing numbers of students seem committed to proving that they do indeed have enough force to close the college...