Word: cordiality
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Relations between sport fishermen and their commercial cousins have never been exactly cordial. Lately they have been strained to the breaking point. No longer satisfied with harvestIng such traditional "meat" fish as cod, halibut, salmon and the smaller tunas, commercial fishermen from Japan, Scandinavia and Russia have now invaded the world's best sport-fishing areas with superefficient methods that devastate the population of rare game fish. In the once renowned waters off New Zealand's Mayor Island, where 900 big fish-swordfish, striped and black marlin -were boated in 1949, not a single billfish of any size...
...parked the car at the Church. The rector had not been there, so we had strolled a block or two to the office of an attorney whom he had met at St. Paul's and encountered several times since. This time our visit was more cordial. We had given him and his wife a copy of "My people is the Earth" for Easter, and I think they were deeply touched. This time he was less suspicious, less defensive, less insistent that we get the hell out of town." We had talked this time of the Gospel, of what a white...
...prop U.S. Air Force Convair T-29, Fowler met with Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Governor of the Bank of Italy Guido Carli, and Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo. The Italians have been more sympathetic than most Europeans to the U.S. call for reform, and this time the meetings were cordial from the beginning. "We have given our fullest support" to the idea of an international conference, said Minister Colombo as he and Fowler left the meeting. For the first time, Fowler indicated that the U.S. has a time table for reform: talks to begin later this month...
Spoken like a true diplomat, since Green undoubtedly knew the well-rehearsed sort of welcome he could expect. Act I took place at the Presidential Palace, where he presented his credentials, and consisted of champagne toasts with President Sukarno, together with a cordial lecture from the Bung on how U.S.-Indonesia relations were at their lowest ebb, all because U.S. policies in Viet Nam and Malaysia were "discouraging the Indonesian people in their wish to develop friendship with the United States." Act II, performed as Green drove back to the U.S. embassy, featured 2,000 Communist students and women chanting...
...hour minimum wage, the President commented testily: "I see by the papers I have a minimum-wage program." But when Johnson's labor message got to Congress a request for a wage hike was conspicuously absent. When Humphrey recently returned from Paris after a cordial 80-minute conversation with Charles de Gaulle, which seemed like a considerable diplomatic achievement, word from the White House was that the Humphrey-De Gaulle talk didn't amount to anything...