Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adlai Stevenson, for whom Latin Americans have a great regard, got the warmest welcome in Brazil yet. On a ten-nation tour to discuss Kennedy's Alliance for Progress -and incidentally to see if anyone had changed his mind about joint action on Castro-he found expressions of friendship and enthusiastic talk about development. But it was still no sale on Castro...
...whom are really friends. When the colonel slips an extra bill to a young second waiter, the tip is reproachfully returned-an event about as plausible as the Grand Canal turning to Valpolicella. John O'Hara, a Hemingway disciple but less sentimental, is not so much concerned with friendship between servant and master as with correctness; his elderly club members know that it is as gauche to overtip as to undertip, and they seem to get away with shiny half-dollars that would be flung into the faces of lesser men. J. P. Marquand also knew, along with...
Nikita Khrushchev bounced back into Moscow like a man who felt he had carried off all the marbles. "That tireless herald of friendship and cooperation among nations," as Pravda called him, had not been so gay since he gave up heavy drinking. Flying direct from Vienna, he arrived just in time to greet Indonesia's wide-roaming President Sukarno, whom he presented with a car and a six-foot bronze statue of a Soviet sportswoman. Next night Khrushchev brought all the top Soviet brass to Sukarno's 60th birthday party, held on the lawn of the Indonesian embassy...
...clever and knowledgeable, but still unsure in the manipulation of national power. But the personal relationship went better than anyone had expected. Thanks in large part to the help of Jackie Kennedy at her prettiest, Kennedy charmed the old soldier into unprecedented, flattering toasts and warm gestures of friendship. The young aristocrat of Massachusetts and the old aristocrat of Colombeyles-Deux-Eglises achieved a rapport that would help when France and the U.S. try to resolve the issues that divide them...
...were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen ("Kick") up and married Ormsby-Gore's first cousin, the Marquess of Hartington. The marquess was killed in World War II and Kathleen in a 1948 airplane crash, but the friendship between Jack and David endured...