Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banking heavily on his friendship with the West and his reputation as a reasonable Arab, Jordan's King Hussein went to the U.S. last week on a delicate mission. Speaking for both himself and his latter-day ally, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hussein sought U.S. support for softening Israel's hardening terms for peace. He went at the job with vigor. Seemingly popping up everywhere, the King dashed from TV stations to speakers' platforms to conferences. He appeared on Face the Nation, delivered a major address at Georgetown University, had lunch at Washington...
Earlier, L.B.J. had exuberantly welcomed Díaz Ordaz to Washington for his first state visit there and their fifth meeting. "I want you to feel at home in my house, as I do in yours," L.B.J. beamed at his friend. This accentuated mood of friendship prevailed, although in a speech before Congress Díaz Ordaz sternly warned against protectionist trade tendencies in the U.S. But the visit's highlight was clearly the celebration of the Chamizal affair's settlement...
...Katmandu. He has not only managed to keep his landlocked, Wisconsin-size nation from being swallowed up by its giant neighbors but has turned Nepal into a highly profitable "neutral cockpit"-as admiring diplomats call it-by letting all the world's great rivals pay handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce and is pledged to defend the kingdom, has built a rival road south from Katmandu toward Calcutta...
...firmly steered his nation from the rubble of war through the U.S. occupation toward its emergence as a modern industrial democratic state. All along the way, he fended off attacks from both the Communist left and jingoist right, and by his retirement could point to prosperity, peace and friendship with the Western world...
This, perhaps, is the only history that matters. But for the record, lead guitar John Hillman found harp-player Peter Ivers playing on a subway, and singer-bass player Gilbert Moses met Tschudin putting on plays in the NYU Drama Department. The previous friendship of Tschudin and Ivers brought the duos together, and the four auditioned for a drummer, luckily finding Jay Rubero. Ivers '68, a classics major who looks like a cross between Dennis the Menace and a Marvel superhero, proudly tells us that the new rock-and-roll group is based in Boston so he can finish college...