Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Argo). One of the world's best new chamber orchestras is the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, which took its name from the old London church where it made its debut a decade ago. With Concertmaster Neville Marriner directing in 18th century style from the first desk, the 16-man ensemble achieves a dramatic precision that would do credit to Toscanini. The three Divertimenti for strings, written when Mozart was 16, are stunning miniatures in Italian rococo symphonic style. The Serenata Notturna, scored for two small orchestras plus timpani, also sparkles with classical elegance...
...Only Desk Soldiers. There was good reason for staying alert. Where the Communists had elected to do battle, they fought fiercely, even suicidally. Communist attackers threw themselves against a brigade headquarters of the U.S. 25th Division at Dau Tieng, an abandoned rubber plantation 40 miles northwest of Saigon, damaging six helicopters and shooting down two others that attempted to get off the ground. At Long Binh, the sprawling U.S. Army Viet Nam headquarters northeast of Saigon, a guerrilla force led by a few regulars was beaten back at the wire with the loss of 132 men. A prisoner taken...
Nixon will stay at baronial Claridge's, not far from the U.S. embassy. The hotel's vaunted service will doubtless suffer. Scotland Yard already has plans afoot to infiltrate the staff with plainclothesmen disguised as waiters, news vendors, elevator operators and striped-pants front-desk functionaries...
...cold January morning, no time for a self-respecting resident of The Hague to be on the streets, and the desk sergeant at police headquarters was baffled by the middle-aged Chinese, clad in pajamas and raincoat, who stood before him. From the mixture of broken Dutch and poor English, the problem resolved itself: the man was Liao Ho-shu, 46, interim chief of Communist China's mission in The Netherlands, and he wanted police protection. After some delay, he was turned over to the Dutch BVD (security police), who whisked him off for interrogation at a spacious, secluded...
...President, Johnson felt that he had a "fascination with the news," noting that he had three television screens in front of his desk, wire service machines behind it. Nixon has had them all moved out, but even so Johnson seems to foresee that the new President will also be affected by the tone of the news. He begs the press to treat Presidents more evenly-"instead of on a roller coaster that carried them from unreasonable heights at the beginning of their tenure to unreasonable depths once the honeymoon was over...