Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital and dispatched a White House plane to bring Mrs. Dirksen to her husband's bedside from Nashville, where she was visiting their daughter. Later in the week, Johnson paid Dirksen a personal call. The President's concern was more than a reflection of longstanding friendship. It was also acknowledgment of Dirksen's unique eminence in American politics, both as the guiding spirit of congressional Republicans and the pragmatic champion of his party's support for the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy and its major legislative goals...
...area with a man who had crossed over illegally from East Germany, carrying "a camera purportedly to take pictures of the area." After entering Canada in 1955, Gerda moved into an apartment below some "known Soviet agents," turned to prostitution ($15 to $20 per customer), and struck up a friendship with Sévigny that lasted almost until her return to Germany in 1961. What was more, the Mounties said, Gerda told them that "at a social function in Ottawa, the Prime Minister of Canada had told her that she was doing a great thing for Canada and that...
...celebrated "Munsinger Affair" (TIME, March 25) had been the talk of the country. Last week it moved into the courtroom, as public hearings opened under Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62. They would try to determine whether there had been a national security leak in the friendship of 36-year-old German Party Girl Gerda Munsinger with ministers of the former Conservative government. So far, the evidence was about as scant as the party-girl costumes Gerda had donned for cheesecake photos in Munich...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. In a small, poignant masterwork from Czechoslovakia, Nazi terror eventually poisons the friendship between a warmhearted old Jewess (Ida Kamińska) and a decent Aryan nonentity (Josef KrÓner) whose courage falters under stress...
Died. Leslie L. Biffle, 76, a 20-year veteran of backroom politics on Capitol Hill, who reached his apogee when, as Secretary of the U.S. Senate in 1945-47 and again in 1949-52, his friendship with President Truman made him a power pivot between the White House and the Senate; of pneumonia; in Washington. A wispy, whispery Arkansan, Biffle, as the man in charge of the Senate's machinery, was the one to see to grease the ways for a bill or swing a vote here and there. His political judgment was considered "blue chip" after...