Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Jorge Alessandri, 66, was whisked into a helicopter after ceremonies at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, plunked down an hour later on the White House lawn. An honor guard snapped to attention, 21 guns roared a salute in the freezing air, and President Kennedy stepped forward with words of friendship and welcome. Then came a round of diplomatic luncheons, press conferences, a white-tie dinner and a speech before the Organization of American States. But Chile's Alessandri was interested in more than pomp, pleasantries and platitudes...
China, and its 40,000-man army would be scarcely a bite-size morsel for the rapacious Red Chinese. So far, Russia's friendship has fended off the consequences...
...press responded by raising a mighty ruckus. Mark Watson, military reporter for the Baltimore Sun, was reminded of "the policy and performance of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Paul Goebbels." Wrote Joe Alsop in a column careless of any strain it might put on his friendship with the President: "The caves of the policymakers still too strongly resemble mushroom cellars. The danger is airlessness, in other words, and this airlessness can be too easily fatal, unless the caves are regularly ventilated by the winds of national doubt...
...American serviceman-the soldier, sailor, marine, or airman who has stood ready in countless spots around the world from the paddyfields of Viet Nam to the blue waters of the Caribbean to serve his country, and meanwhile acts with warmth and friendship as its most effective ambassador of people-to-people diplomacy...
Though his appointment was greeted coolly by Nairobi's Blimps, Kenya's new Governor, its 13th, has a feeling for history and an unaffected sense of equality with Britain's former subjects that has earned him the friendship of native leaders from Bangalore to Brunei. To hold Kenya together, as the East African Standard warned last week, he will also need "the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job and uncommon good luck...