Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week on an inspection and consultation trip to Saigon, where they conferred with Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, and will not return to Washington until this week. Before he left Washington, McNamara confirmed that the upcoming decisions might include "calling up Reserve and Guard forces, extending the tours of duty of personnel presently in the forces, and increasing the draft calls...
Shield on Cyprus. The conflict dates back to last May, and oddly enough it began in Cyprus. There, General George Grivas, commanding the Greek-controlled National Guard, reported to the King and Defense Minister Petros Garoufalias, 64, his discovery of a secret army-officer organization called Aspida (shield). Aspida, said Grivas, was a nationalistic leftist movement, one of whose aims was Greece's withdrawal from NATO. It appeared to be connected with K.Y.P., the Greek CIA, and to have been extended to Cyprus in November 1964. It was about this time that Andreas Papandreou, the Premier...
...uneventful was the flight that it began to worry Mariner Project Manager Dan Schneiderman. He was afraid that his 200-man control team might begin to take the mission too much for granted. Determined to guard against the danger, he busied his men with practice Mars encounter exercises all through the final few weeks of the flight. Working with a duplicate of the ship that was far out in space, Schneiderman's team manned their posts and computed answers to a nerve-racking sequence of simulated problems. They dealt with every imaginable glitch, from premature starts of the camera...
Possibly Rolled. The performance was actually a prèmiere, since the work will not be played at Chichester itself until later this month. Let the bishop be on guard: he will need to assemble a highly capable cathedral choir. Aside from the challenge of the score, there is the problem of pronunciation (for non-Hebrew speakers) as posed in Bernstein's notes: "H-slightly guttural, though not so guttural as ch, which is pronounced as in German (Buch). R-rolled if possible, as in Italian...
Opinions differ on the essence of his appeal. Elsa Maxwell defined it as being "so unbelievably charming and thoughtful that you are off guard before you know it." Zsa Zsa Gabor said he was "a gentleman who should have been born a hundred years ago-this century is too fast for him, too cold." Men were apt to dismiss his allure as a capacity for taking infinite pains in the pursuit of pleasure: having a match flaming by the time a woman's cigarette touched her lips, for example, or being, as his old Paris nickname of "Toujours...