Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cruising offshore was the U.S.S. Princeton with 1,300 combat-ready marines aboard. Admiral John H. Sides, Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet, was in Saigon, en route, he said, to Thailand. Asked if it were true that much of the Seventh Fleet was already in Vietnamese waters, the admiral replied: "The center of gravity of the Seventh Fleet is always near a troubled area...
...while Fellow Delegate Rita Diaz ran down the aisle in her militiawoman's regalia, presented Khrushchev with a Cuban flag. Yet the same issue of the Cuban government organ Revolución that plastered Khrushchev's attack across more than two pages also printed Peking Delegate Chou En-lai's rejoinder in full...
...most thoroughly competent performance of the evening was Stravinsky's short In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, an interesting composition scored for tenor solo, string quartet, and four trombones. Its history is rather interesting: when Dylan Thomas died unexpectedly in 1954 he was en route to collaborate with Stravinsky on an opera, and the composer, much distraught, wrote this simple, direct work in memory of his friend. The In Memoriam opens with canonic music for trombones and string ritornello; this is repeated in the postlude with the parts reversed. The middle section is a strophic setting of Thomas's "In Memoriam," written...
Communist leaders from the West quickly joined the chorus. But Chou En-lai was not totally friendless in the Palace of Congresses. North Viet Nam's wisp-bearded Ho Chih Minh and North Korea's chunky Kim II Sung refused to join Khrushchev in condemning Red China by denouncing Albania...
...River (surrounded by 60 nervous lifeguards). Mao's heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi, whose icy demeanor frightens even his colleagues, struck Monty as "a thinker, an intellectual": tough Foreign Minister Chen Yi was "a most genial and pleasant person and has a great sense of humor," and Chou En-lai possessed "a first-class brain...