Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened, Venezuela was the President's next stopping point. He had scheduled the visit as a gesture of reciprocal friendship with Venezuela's staunchly pro-American President Romulo Betancourt. But Venezuela is where Vice President Richard Nixon was attacked by mobs in 1958, and in the days before Kennedy's trip, Caracas leftists again erupted in violent protest. Confronted by the prospect of trouble, both the U.S. and Venezuelan governments took extreme security precautions...
Enmity & Amity. Still, he offered hope for his continent, and friendship for his foes. "This is Africa's age-the dawn of her fulfillment-yes, the moment when she must grapple with destiny to reach the summits of sublimity saying, ours was a fight for noble values and worthy ends, and not for lands and the enslavement of man. Still licking the scars of past wrongs perpetrated on her, could she not be magnanimous and practice no revenge? Her hand of friendship scornfully rejected, her pleas for justice and fair play spurned, should she not nonetheless seek to turn...
Though no one was talking-least of all McCormick, who last week disappeared from all his old haunts-one of the things the investigators reportedly uncovered was McCormick's friendship with Alexander Guterma, former president of the Detroit auto parts firm of F. L. Jacobs & Co., who was sent to federal penitentiary two years ago for stock fraud. The friendship was close enough, so the story went, that when McCormick ran up a sizable gambling debt during a 1956 trip to Havana, he let Guterma pick...
...Nixon." President Betancourt will no doubt call out all the troops and lock up all the troublemakers he can find. The question is whether he can find them all. Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger played down any danger: "We have plenty of confidence in the hospitality and friendship of the Venezuelan people...
...magnetism of Malcolm's personality impressed the WHRB panel. A tall, wiry, proud man, Minister Malcolm spoke with a smooth, yet forceful, voice which transmitted a spirit of sincere frankness and friendship to his listeners. As he gesticulated emphatically with his left hand, the Minister's veins stood out on his temples. Then suddenly, as he mentioned the name of the "Honorable Elijah Muhammad," Malcolm's tone was transformed into one of reverence...