Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult not only because the Home Secretaryship (which he keeps) is a harshly demanding post, but because the Government's attitude toward the negotiations is still hopelessly undefined. Nothing that Harold Macmillan said at Brighton made it any clearer; he believed that "this is the dawn and not the dusk," that "our purpose is by evolution to create a new Commonwealth structure which will avoid the decline and fall which till now has been the fate of every empire." He implied that Britain was to balance itself neatly between Europe and the Commonwealth, a curious program that will complicate...
...DUSK was gathering over the Kremlin. "As I was walking back to the Congress Palace after the dinner recess the first day," cabled TIME'S veteran Moscow Correspondent Edmund Stevens, "I recognized a familiar figure in a long overcoat walking alone. He waved to me. I walked over and shook hands...
...early dusk at Trung Lap, U.S. Captain Edward Nidever, a West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...
Despite his quick promise, the careful Goulart took no chances. He waited until dusk before boarding a Varig Airlines Caravelle jet. At 8:15 p.m., the lights of Brasilia shone below, and the plane was blacked out. At the last possible moment, the Caravelle pilot flipped on his landing lights, the plane touched down, and President Goulart was safely in the capital...
Rademaekers, who has been working on Iron Curtain affairs since 1955 and was in Hungary during the 1956 revolt, dipped into East Berlin twelve times last week-crossing the border at dawn, dusk and midnight-walking, driving, and once taking a ghostly ride through East Berlin's heavily guarded U-bahn (subway) stations. He also scouted the length of the East-West Berlin border from Teltow Canal in the south to Tegeler Forst in the north, scrambling over rubble and through potato patches, often attracting the nervous attention of the armed border guards. At week's end, Washington...