Word: gabfest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watched troop movements in the streets of Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town. The Town Meeting of the World turned international as Barry Goldwater in New York, Dean Rusk and Sir Alec Douglas-Home in London, and Maurice Schumann in Paris joined in a transatlantic gabfest. A mug shot of Canada's most wanted man, relayed by Early Bird and recognized by a televiewer in Florida, gave accused Bank Robber Georges Lemay the dubious fame of becoming the first fugitive nabbed by satellite. NBC teamed up with the BBC and, for a refreshing few minutes...
...Republicans and liberal Democrats, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Justice Department lawyers. Explained Ev: "I'm trying to unscrew the inscrutable." That meant reaching some sort of agreement on some 70 amendments that the Republicans want passed in return for help in shutting off a threatened Southern gabfest...
After a concert at U.C.L.A.'s first International Music Festival, frail, limping Igor Stravinsky, 78, was greeted by the Soviet delegation. Although one of the visitors had been a Stalinist cultural commissar when Stravinsky was blasted as a "decadent bourgeois," the meeting became a chattering, congenial gabfest, and the famed composer was invited to make his first visit to his native land since he left in 1914. Stravinsky tentatively accepted, but as his wife explained, "He is worried that he will become too emo tional when he returns to Russia...