Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look could have had another cause. With his political future-and a possible third term-already clouded over by a canyon-sized Democratic split between Tammany Hall and Manhattan reformers, Wagner was grimly aware that Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller's State Investigation Commission was pawing over his old friendship with George Sanders, owner of a sightseeing ship line that operates from a city pier. One commission finding: Sanders paid "several hundred dollars" for Wagner's hotel suite political headquarters at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles last July. Outraged, Wagner denied that he had ever done any favors...
...with his invention that he devotedly contributed his talents to "resurrecting the reputation of Campalans." He composed a scholarly biography, right down to footnotes that have footnotes. For pictures of his subject's peasant parents, Aub used a pair of appropriate Spanish postcards. To document J.T.C.'s friendship with Picasso, he found a face in a newspaper crowd scene, mounted it on a photo of the master...
...galleries. Adenauer had also fretted that he might be unable to establish with John F. Kennedy the same goodfriend terms that he had built up with Dwight Eisenhower.* That worry was also evaporated: after the meetings with Kennedy, Adenauer felt that he had established a "great spirit of friendship" with the new President...
Even Lumumba's heir in the Congo. Moscow-and Cairo-blessed Antoine Gizenga, has little to show from Nasser's friendship. Says Pierre Mulele, Gizenga's "chief of mission" in Cairo: "All the aid we have got from the U.A.R. is the visa that was given me to come here." Mulele lives as Nasser's guest in a suite in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, comforted by a big Siemens radio receiver to keep him in touch with Stanleyville. One Cairo diplomat sums up Nasser's diminished stature: "Nobody has much to hope...
...will sharply color their thinking and image of the Lao people; dismayed, too, by the thought of the irritation and resentment which I fear this article will arouse. I feel this is the kind of reporting that undercuts the efforts of our country to win the good will and friendship of other peoples...