Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added irony, the official news agency on the eve of the celebration derided the Johnson Administration for being "more isolated than ever before." The propagandists were, in fact, unwittingly describing Red China's own plight. Not one foreign head of state attended the celebration, and the greetings sent from other capitals were decidedly frosty and reserved...
...Name." The war was not even on the agenda as the Assembly convened, though it will clearly dominate the three-month session. On the eve of the opening, Pope Paul VI delivered in Rome an impassioned, 1,700-word encyclical addressed to both sides: "We cry to them in God's name to stop." In another plea, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant made the extravagant claim that the conflict had become a "holy war between two powerful political ideologies." Its issues, he said, can be resolved "not by force but by patience and understanding." Thant went...
Looser Reins. On the eve of its 100th birthday, Canada is surging with unprecedented prosperity-a prosperity that its American next-door neighbor is scarcely aware of. That ignorance is doubly ironic since it is largely because of U.S. capital investment-$8 billion in the past decade-that the Canadian boom was launched. Much of that ignorance will be dissipated during 1967, Canada's centennial year, when Americans in considerable numbers will head north of the border to visit Expo 67, the Canadian world's fair in Montreal. Just how considerable is far from clear. Expo has counted...
...north portico of the White House. There Lyndon Johnson's warm greeting reflected his gratitude for Marcos' decision, in the face of strong congressional opposition and strident criticism from local leftists and nationalists, to commit a 2,000-man Filipino force to Viet Nam. On the eve of his departure for his 15-day U.S. swing, Marcos had seen off 700 members of a security battalion before they boarded two Saigon-bound troopships. Said Johnson, obviously moved: "Your people and mine have shared suffering and victory. So we are not only friends; we are brothers...
...President was not amused. It was historically unprecedented for a junior Senator, not yet 41 years old, to outpoll a hitherto-popular President from the same party. And it could prove damaging to the party, on the eve of a midterm election that could erode the Administration's working majority in Congress. Moreover, Bobby is likely to remain in the headlines by campaigning in perhaps a score of states (Humphrey plans to stump 38, Johnson all 50) for such fellow Democrats as Michigan's G. Mennen Williams and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. A major target...