Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressures are great, particularly the pressures of Arab extremism, which is not helping us solve the problems brought on by the current catastrophe." Hussein declares that he will not allow Jordan to slip into the Soviet orbit, is convinced that Jordan's future is still best served by friendship with the West. He has been encouraged by hints from Secretary of State Dean Rusk that the U.S. might resume military aid to his country...
While his brother Arab losers looked to Moscow for aid and affection, Hussein last month set out purposely for Washington and Western Europe, stressing his continued friendship with the West and asking for political, economic and military support to rebuild his land. "We have made many mistakes in the past," he said, "partly because we have failed to present our case properly." After speaking at the United Nations, Hussein visited Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson, Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul VI, trying to convince the world that the Arabs' case is more reasonable than most Arabs make it sound...
...three days of talks with Podgorny, Nasser sought more arms, economic aid and-even more important-sorely needed reaffirmation of Soviet friendship. Whatever promises he received, he may well have received a warning along with them-an order to cool his belligerence at least for a while. For Russia remains deeply nettled with Nasser for his inept military performance and his cocky determination to accept only hardware, not advice, from Moscow. This time around, Nasser will have to make concessions...
Before the start of his freshman year at Yale, Brewster asked advice on courses and teachers from a Martha's Vineyard neighbor, Yale History Professor A. Whitney Griswold. It was the start of a long friendship that grew closer when Brewster became chairman of the Yale Daily News, found Griswold a stimulating source of information about the university and a spirited conversationalist on politics. "We had a common sense of the ridiculous and the absurd," Brewster says...
Died. Lady Harlech, 45, wife of Lord Harlech, who as Sir David Ormsby Gore was British Ambassador to Washington (1961-65) and presently is deputy Conservative leader in the House of Lords; a tall, handsome woman whose poise and intimate friendship with the Kennedys made her one of Washington's top diplomatic hostesses; of injuries suffered when her car collided with a bus; near Harlech, Wales...