Word: cordials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply unaccustomed to dealing with crowds of aggressive newsmen. More significant was the Russian decision not to subject U.S. television film to the usual screening before allowing it to leave the country. When an NBC crew did some interviews at a railroad station, the police gave them a cordial lecture, pointing out that transportation centers are considered military facilities and off limits to photographers. NBC got to keep its film anyway. An ABC team shooting near the Kremlin was also accosted by a cop; he merely wanted to suggest a better camera angle. A security colonel com plained...
...literary phenomenon. The book and the movie brought Segal international fame (out selling Sagan in France and Mishima in Japan). It also supplied proportionate hassles. That Yalie reverence, inspired by his association with Yellow Submarine, evolved into cynicism and hostility. It was exacerbated by the cooling of an initially cordial critical reaction. Why didn't they love him more when he was more famous? Segal says, "It was the difference between knowing a Beatle and being one. How would you feel about Ringo teaching Latin...
...most incumbent mayors were returned to office without having to declare themselves, and the burning issues proved to be garbage collection and improvement of water supplies. Hussein nevertheless got a careful hearing in Washington, where the White House allowed that the two leaders' meeting had been "very cordial." Any stronger endorsement of the King's plan, as both sides knew, would condemn it in the eyes of other Arab states, which already suspect Hussein's dealings with Israel...
...Jerusalem. An ordained rabbi and graduate lawyer, Herzog was an intelligence expert in the underground before Israel became independent. Afterward he quietly served a succession of prime ministers. He was David Ben-Gurion's closest counselor during the 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign, and following the war used his cordial relationship with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to help resolve U.S.-Israeli differences. Herzog was director-general of the Premier's office for Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, service that earned him the sobriquet "the Henry Kissinger of Israel...
...sought the widest possible audience in selecting 24 newspaper correspondents who represent 119 dailies. But he gave spots to Columnists William Buckley, Joseph Kraft and Richard Wilson, who presumably could analyze just as well from afar. He also awarded one place to the Reader's Digest, which has cordial relations with Nixon but neither covers the White House regularly nor is truly in the news business. The White House Correspondents Association protested the exclusion of four newspapers and radio chains that staff the White House full time...