Word: cordiales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 1,200. But Bobby's speech had been edited to death. Work on it had begun a month before. President Kennedy had expressed a deep interest in it-and insisted on approving it before delivery. Even as Bobby flew from Rome (where he and Ethel had a cordial 25-minute audience with Pope John XXIII), White House Adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was laboring away on a final draft. That draft was cabled to Washington for the President's final approval. It returned in drastically modified form...
...Japanese businessman. TIME asked the celebrated Japanese artist Nampu Katayama to paint the portrait. An academy "immortal" at 74, Katayama had never done a commission for a foreign publication before. The negotiations, at his home in a bamboo grove on the outskirts of Tokyo, were delicate and cordial, though his lively wife broke in at one point: "Don't you ever believe him when he says he can meet your deadline. For one portrait he was behind for one whole year." Katayama delivered on time, wearing a pleased and mischievous smile...
MARIA CALLAS, 38, has been in semi-retirement for three years, but her fans hope that she may emerge from it. Only last year she was welcomed back to La Scala in an emotion-laden performance of Donizetti's Polinto. Recently she has had cordial correspondence with the Met's Director Rudolph Bing, who canceled her contract three years ago but who now would gladly take her back. How much of her original accuracy, agility and control Callas retains is uncertain; and the Callas voice, even in its finest days, was never the equal of Sutherland...
...control of research. Congress, composed of men interested in either getting re-elected or in safeguarding the country's present welfare, or in both, often makes grants in a spirit contrary to sound educational or technical judgement. Although it may be true that Harvard-Federal government relations have been cordial there remains an unintentional, perhaps unnoticed pressure from Washington "to the Program for Harvard Medicine prospectus...
This source of pressure, despite cordial relations, is emphasized in the Cheever Report. At present, a rich university like Harvard can have its Faculty refuse short-sighted, dramatic Federal projects. In view of the present trend in educational financing, even the wealthy institutions may lose their power to accept only Congressional grants that also coincide with the intentions of the academic community...