Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving in Bonn just 13 days after President Kennedy's triumphant visit, Charles de Gaulle made no effort to enter a popularity contest. Both French and Germans legitimately emphasized that the two-day trip was only a "work ing visit" as stipulated by the brand-new Franco-German Friendship Treaty. As far as protocol and the public were concerned, it was even a kind of unvisit -no parades, no crowds, none of the pageantry so dear to the heart of De Gaulle...
...Yours & Ours." Far deeper than this campaign triumph, Kennedy made at least two substantive points. First, and most important, he reasserted in clear, forceful terms the major aim of U.S. policy toward Europe: to help Western Europe become a strong, independent force of its own, linked by bonds of friendship to a strong, independent U.S. To achieve that aim he offered full risk by the U.S. "My stay in this country will be all too brief," he said in Bonn, "but in a larger sense the United States is here on this continent to stay so long as our presence...
Missed Rendezvous. Over their radios, Valya and Valery sang songs of friendship to each other, flashed "best wishes to the industrious American people" and "warm greetings to the multimillioned Chinese." Loosening their harnesses, both cosmonauts performed calisthenics while floating weightlessly in their cabins. But though the two Vostoks passed within three miles of each other, their orbital paths were so divergent that they could not rendezvous. Since U.S. scientists had fully expected the two capsules to link up in space, they speculated that Soviet scientists had made a launching miscalculation...
Boastfully parading Hoffa's friendship Tony Pro beat back every challenge by Hoboken Teamsters who objected to his terrorizing rule of the local. When the dissidents met, bullets whizzed warningly past their meeting place. Tony's more outspoken critics were battered by thugs. With less than half of his 14,000 members turning out for elections, Tony kept winning. But last week he lost in a place where it really hurt: a federal courtroom...
...faltered at all. Ashkenazy played with great excitement and vigor, and Frager-who also charmed the audience with his perfect Russian-was every bit his match. But the thing that made the evening electrifying was the evidence of such joy in music making, the proof of such harmony in friendship...