Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snub of Feisal's half brother, the former King Saud, by Mayor Robert Wagner in 1957 nearly precipitated an international incident. But no one appeared overly perturbed last week. The Waldorf rolled out the usual red carpet for the visiting monarch, the 35th-floor presidential suite was made fit for a King, and Feisal appeared content to dine (on cold shoulder?) in his quarters. "I think," said a Saudi official, "the King is above being angered by something trivial like this...
...Ambassador has turned his interest from past to current events, Reischauer will not teach any of his traditional courses this semester and is still uncommitted about the Spring. "All my work used to be in the pre-modern period, and now I just don't know where I fit in," But if he is unsure as to what he will teach, his planned writing on modern Japan, diplomacy, and the Asian scene, should keep him busy. His final job during the year will be to drop by the State Department occasionally to advice our Far Eastern policy makers...
Teddy Rooseveltian. The Senator is repeatedly asked how a man of his liberalism can fit within the G.O.P. In conversation last week the question came up again, and Javits said: "My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian. Besides, I have a greater sense of advocacy of business than most Democrats...
...quite an accomplishment for a man of 40 in a nation that seldom considers a man fit for high public office until he is well past his 50s. But Barzel had long since established himself as a comer. He joined the Neues Deutschland young Catholic movement while still a law student at the University of Cologne, and by the time he was elected to the Bundestag from a heavily Catholic Rhineland district in 1957, was already spokesman for an influential group of young Catholic laymen...
Afterward, Giap proudly wrote that "guerrilla warfare relies on the heroic spirit to triumph over modern weapons." It is a myth-enhancing statement, but it does not quite fit the facts of his triumph over the French. In the decisive turning point at Dienbienphu, it was not the heroic spirit of Giap's soldiers but their massive artillery in the hills that carried...