Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seriocomic man-woman fencing between Stapleton and Guardino is the special delight of the evening. Here are two people ravenously hungry for each other and yet honestly anxious to cherish each other's dignity. In his most direct play, Williams makes a sensuous sonnet out of his central love symbol: "The rose is the heart of the world...
...national banks, James J. Saxon became one of the Government's most activist bureaucrats and one of the most contentious. He chartered more than 500 new banks, permitted 510 banking mergers, and empowered commercial banks for the first time to get into revenue-bond underwriting, the direct-leasing business and insurance selling. Along the way, he irritated two U.S. Presidents and obstreperously tangled with such Washington Pooh-Bahs as Robert Kennedy, William McChesney Martin, Nicholas Katzenbach, Senator John McClellan and Congressman Wright Patman-as well as leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...jails. Whether or not Boeckenhaupt passed on important information or, indeed, any information at all, he had every opportunity to glean intelligence of interest to the Russians. The Pentagon post where he worked not only has positions of U.S. combat aircraft and missiles but also is Washington's direct line of communication with the President when he is aboard Air Force One, the flying White House...
...vote of 5 to 2, the high state court rejected all her claims. Chief Judge Charles Desmond, no Miranda admirer, nonetheless hotly dissented on the ground that every other direct appeal (excluding certain property-rights cases) in the history of New York's top court, had always been "decided according to the law as we found it on the day of decision." "New York," he said, "should make Miranda retroactive in accordance with its own traditions...
...possibility of direct commercial flights between Moscow and New York has long frozen and thawed with changes in the cold war. First proposed in 1935 shortly after Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh flew to Moscow, the idea was plucked out of limbo by 1958-59 cultural-exchange agreements. Then the talks were broken off after the Soviets shot down the U-2 in 1960. When the Russians released two captured RB-47 flyers as a gesture to the new Kennedy Administration, negotiations resumed, and the deal had even been tentatively struck when the Berlin Wall blocked it. The Cuban missile...