Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...village of Pocking, Otto traveled often to Spain, where he was honorary president of the Franco-backed European Documentation and Information Center, an organization founded in 1952 to bring politically isolated Spain into closer relations with the rest of Europe. His membership in this society and his friendship with Franco convinced Austrian Socialists that his ultimate aim was the re-establishment of an auto cratic monarchy in Austria...
...attacked the "virgin-birth theory" of foreign aid--that if you put in money and higher living standards, democracy, and friendship automatically result without any need for worrying about political problems...
Ceaseless Combat. In the course of his trip, Kazantzakis does not make a single friend. The closest he comes to friendship is when a Japanese grudgingly confesses: "Your absence is more disagreeable to me than your presence." When he falls in love with a willowy Chinese girl, she is whisked away to serve in the war effort. "Her individual suffering," Kazantzakis muses, "had assumed its true proportions, lost like a tiny sigh over the immense and dolorous face of China...
...county of eight small districts.) Except through the church there is very little interchange between Negroes who live in different districts. The county's two factories, which centralize work, are beginning to change this pattern, but both are too recently arrived to have cut deeply into traditional habits of friendship. Besides, the work they require is too grueling to permit much social life after hours. Any kind of campaign outside the church is, as a consequence, extremely hard to organize...
...introduced a weirdly different suggestion. It claimed that De Gaulle's own choice as his successor is none other than Henri d'Orleans, 54, Comte de Paris, descendant of King Henri IV, and Pretender to the throne of France. L'Express pointed to the warm personal friendship between the count and De Gaulle, recalled that le grand Charles's earliest political sympathies were monarchist, and noted that the Count's Gaullist leanings had made him a target of a bombing by Secret Army terrorists. L'Express concluded: "This vision is one which haunts...