Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such diversified types as Henry Ford II, former President Hoover, Bing Crosby, Richard Nixon, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Lucius Clay, retired General Albert Wedemeyer (Barry's host), former Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, and Old Aviator Jimmy Doolittle. There is al ways an eager waiting list of at least 850-and some people wait 15 years before they're tapped for membership...
...Negotiators. At this anxious moment, who should turn up in Leopoldville but a batch of white mercenaries from Johannesburg eager to sign up on Tshombe's side, just as they had done back in the old days when he needed outside help to keep Katanga independent. Good news for Moise? Perhaps. But the mercenaries posed a nightmarish problem for U.S. officials on the scene. They are inclined to help the old Katanga renegade now that he is on the side of Congo unity, but would be acutely embarrassed to find themselves allied with South African racists in the process...
...Minister of Industries Che Guevara. Castro gave the enthusiastic crowd of 100,000 a brief wave, unstrapped his ever-present .45 automatic, and stood through the introductions with nervous, twitching fingers. The Organization of American States had just voted diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba, and Castro was eager to strike back. "The OAS is garbage, a Yankee ministry of colonies," he railed. "The people of Cuba repudiate the insolent threats of armed aggression. It is one thing to fire without risk on unarmed people, as happened in Panama, and another to invade an armed nation where the people...
...their country to them because it was so "baffling." In Jordan, Knowles was lionized by King Hussein, and titillated by the prospect that he might lend a hand in writing the royal autobiography (a Briton got the job). Knowles pushed on to the Aegean islands. Everywhere, simple peasants were eager to welcome the camera-bearing tourist...
...Marxist origins of Germany's labor movement long made it unthinkable for unions to support or even condone capitalism. Then postwar prosperity, bulging union coffers, and "co-determination" laws-which placed union leaders on corporate boards-gradually converted labor into an eager partner in the German economy. Trade unions today own Germany's biggest housing construction company, and share with cooperatives ownership of its second-ranked deep-sea fishery and the largest cut-rate life insurance company in Europe. Labor's proudest possession is one of the world's few union-owned banks, the Frankfurt-based...