Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak among his superstitious countrymen and served his immediate strategy. At a Djakarta reception next night, he cried dramatically: "They tried to kill me." Aides left no doubt that by "they" Sukarno meant the Dutch, although no one knows who actually planted the grenade. Communist China's Chou En-lai sent Sukarno a message condemning "imperialist ruffians." Khrushchev sent a "sincerely rejoicing" cable on the President's survival...
Summoned to the Soviet Foreign Office, Western correspondents were amazed to learn from an official spokesman that after eight weeks in Moscow, Molotov was returning to his job in Vienna and was already en route by train. In reply to questions, the spokesman said blandly that Molotov had not been expelled from the party, had come home for vacation, and had "never retired" from the atomic energy post. But next day, when the Moscow-Vienna express, an hour late, pulled into the Sudbahnhof, Molotov was not aboard. Back at the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow, the spokesman hastily explained that...
...anti-novelists seem to be motivated by nothing more than a craving for the new and different; others, unable to deal with genuine human feelings, escape into atomizing and itemizing; still others think that a "scientific" approach is nowadays a guarantee of high seriousness. In Degrees, Butor attempts to en-capsule forever a chunk of reality, like a mouse enclosed in a glass globe. The mouse becomes magnified beyond its importance, and the revolving globe presents the rodent from angles irrelevant to human experience. Since it was a very small mouse to start with, it should be no surprise...
...Kennedy clan gathered. Pat Kennedy Lawford flew in from California; Ted Kennedy came by military jet from Boston, bringing with him Dr. William T. Foley, a Manhattan vascular specialist. From Washington came Eunice Kennedy Shriver, on the same plane that brought Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Palm Beach en route to the Bermuda conference. Ted Kennedy. Jean Smith and Ann Gargan spelled one another in a round-the-clock vigil near Room 355. where Joe Kennedy lay. Across the hall, doctors kept their own vigil. On the door to the doctors' room was a bronze plaque: "In Memory...
...River Jordan, Britain's 46-day-old Viscount Linley was christened David Albert Charles in the domed music room of Buckingham Palace. The ceremony over, David's proud parents, Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, set off to finish up their preparations for a Christmas en famille at the Queen's Norfolk country home, after which they planned to take a second honeymoon in the West Indies-sans the squalling viscount...