Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing Quite Like It. Even those who had been forewarned were caught off guard. "I'm stunned," said Connally. "I didn't think it would happen." Humphrey, who heard the speech on the radio at U.S. Ambassador Fulton Freeman's Mexico City home, said: "This is a very sad moment for me." Muriel wept. The next morning, when Humphrey showed up with red-rimmed eyes to address U.S. residents in Mexico, he quipped: "It's smog. I had no idea you were so close to Los Angeles...
Irreconcilable Aims. What might happen next is far less clear. President Johnson has named as his negotiators Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman, 76, sometimes called "The Crocodile" for the snapping speed of his mind on complex problems, and Llewellyn Thompson, 63, Ambassador to Moscow. Both are veterans of many confrontations with the Communists. What can they negotiate...
...territorial waters of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The penalty for espionage in this country is death. The only condition that we will be returned home on is for the U.S. Government to admit its crime, apologize and give assurance that it will not happen again. If these conditions are not met, then we will be executed for the acts. I love you both so much that even as a grown man I have broken into tears many times...
...Prague, an empty bottle of cheap wine at his feet. On an island in the Vltava River, more than 3,000 people imprisoned and tortured when the Communists first came to power met to praise Dubček and unfurl a white banner that read: "Never let it happen again...
Lumped loosely in the category of emergency care, such cases claim untold lives each year. But how can such tragedies happen in an age and a nation where severed limbs are restored, kidneys are transplanted, and "dead" hearts are restarted routinely in intensive-cardiac-care wards? Among the causes of the problem are obsolete equipment, understaffed and overcrowded hospitals, administrative ineptitude, poor judgment, and the nearly nation wide absence of an organized approach to the problem. Each of the 6,000 general hospitals in the U.S. should be at least morally bound to accept and treat any emergency case, regardless...