Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baker also elaborated on his early friendship with the late Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr, to whom he previously claimed to have turned over $99,600 in campaign contributions from California savings-and-loan executives (TIME, Jan. 27)-money that the Government charged he largely diverted to his own use. Under cross-examination by Justice Department Attorney William Bittman, Baker told of buying stock some 15 years ago in the Oklahoma millionaire's Kerr-McGee Corp. He testified: "That would be the first start of any relationship that I had with the Senator, because he said...
...against Red Guard posters that reported a plot to overthrow the North Korean government. Cried Pyongyang: "An intolerable slander." Japan is disillusioned about its recent new moves toward Red China and fretful about its carefully cultivated and growing trade with the Chinese. Pakistan, which has beea edging toward friendship with Peking, now finds itself peering un- comfortably into an abyss. Most of all, China's travail tears at the millions of overseas Chinese who are scattered around the mainland periphery, many of whom have families back home that are caught in the maelstrom...
...chauvinist, nationalist, anti-Leninist, anti-working class and anti-people." Peking replied that it would "sweep away all vermin, be it U.S. imperialism or Soviet revisionism." The feud has virtually evaporated all ties save diplomatic relations. Students from both countries have returned to their homelands. The last Soviet Friendship Delegation to China, in November, was an exercise in hostility rather than hospitality. Russian and East European journalists have been roughed up with such monotonous regularity in China that they now "just stay indoors." Both sides have made appeals for the overthrow of the other's regime. Neither side...
...built outcropping of grandiose, half-filled government buildings and a splendid four-lane boulevard that runs straight and proud to the weeds and sand at the city's edge. The one major difference is that Dahomey's strongman, President Christophe Soglo, held out the warm hand of friendship-and frank financial interest...
...Gene Tunney, William S. Hart, Al Smith and the Prince of Wales. (If in fact she had any famous lovers, nobody ever discovered who they were.) When Billy Sunday preached against her sensuous dance of the seven veils in Salome, she went to see him and quickly won his friendship over an ice cream soda. Andrew Carnegie pledged his admiration but allowed that he would not go to hear her in Louise because he did not believe in free love; Faust was more his speed, he said...