Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico's democratic President Adolfo López Mateos is one of the U.S.'s warmest friends, and since last year's settlement of the century-old dispute over the Chamizal border strip (negotiated by Tom Mann while ambassador to Mexico), the friendship has never been warmer. But Mexico maintains diplomatic relations with Cuba and is neutral in the U.S.-Cuba conflict...
Caloric Cuisine. Kir has enthusiastically "twinned" Dijon in friendship with 18 foreign cities, from Stalingrad to Kankan in Guinea to Dallas. And Kir sticks by his friends; he stoutly resisted a proposal, after the Kennedy assassination, to change the name of Dijon's Rue Dallas...
...commits suicide when threatened with exposure, seems to be a combination of William K. Sherwood and Clifford Odets. Mickey, who decides to name all his leftist pals before the House Un-American Activities Committee, is stage and film director Elia Kazan (this act ruptured for some years the close friendship between Miller and Kazan). Ludwig Reiner, the confidant whose name Maggie invokes from time to time, is patently Lee Strasberg, head of the Actors' Studio and Marilyn Monroe's father-confessor...
...Glenn explained at a conference, his knowledge from the three-orbit flight of Friendship 7 had long since been assimilated into the space program. Also, by the time the U.S. is ready to launch the Apollo man-on-the-moon shot, Glenn, now 42, will be "near 50-not very old for most occupations, but on the edge of doubt for astronauts." Glenn therefore decided to run for the Senate because "this is an area in which I have had a lifelong interest. I feel that it provides the best opportunity to make use of the experience I have gained...
...missionary in 1907. He began preaching among low-caste Indians, but eventually decided that it was more important to evangelize among the high-caste Hindus, who made up the intellectual and spiritual leadership of the country. Out of this new mission to the top people grew Jones' rewarding friendship with Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi...