Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a three-hour ceremony at Pleiku, Ky sat impassively in his black uniform and lavender scarf, removing his gloves only to put on the brass bracelets that symbolize Montagnard friendship. Solemnly, 250 Montagnard rebels knelt before him to pledge allegiance to the Saigon government. Then, as Ky, a host of government officials, and U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge looked queasily on, the Montagnards poured rice wine over the Premier's boots and slashed a water buffalo to death in honor of the Saigon visitors. Fortunately, the sacrifice took only five minutes rather than the usual hour or more...
...more continuous time in Viet Nam than any other correspondent. On her way round the world in 1962, she stopped off in Saigon, then stayed on to build a reputation as an energetic reporter who preferred to operate on her own. She developed valuable contacts among the Vietnamese; her friendship with deposed Premier Nguyen Khanh, for example, won her a revealing exclusive interview in which Khanh tried to establish his own political standing by taking a militant, anti-American stand (TIME, Jan. 8, 1965). Beverly finds the "biggest challenge as a woman correspondent is that most of the American troops...
...usher at Kennedy's wedding to Jacqueline Bouvier, a kay campaign aide in Kennedy's first race for the U.S. House of Representatives and, ultimately, President Kennedy's Under Secretary of the Navy-a title conferred entirely in the name of friendship...
...posthumous salutes to John Kennedy, The Pleasure of His Company is possibly the only one that does not try to be significant. Paul Fay has sensibly confined himself to an account of his friendship, and the result is both ingenuous and warm. The fact that Fay's book is being serialized in the daily press and has begun to make the bestseller lists can be taken as an indication that, while the last serious tomes about Kennedy's Administration may have been published, the last glimpses of his personality have...
...Flight of the Spirit of St. Louis and Friendship 7" details the historic flights of Charles Lindbergh and John Glenn...